Re: Q: Line_IO

[jonathan <johnscpg@googlemail.com>]

On Sep 1, 8:02 am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
> >    BUFSIZ: constant := 8_192;
> [...]
> >    SL : constant Natural := Separator_Sequence'Length;
> >    subtype Extended_Buffer_Index is Positive range 1 .. BUFSIZ + SL;
>
> Since BUFSIZ is obviously chosen as an integral number of hardware
> memory pages, the extended_buffer uses two pages plus two bytes. How
> about allocating a buffer of BUFSIZ bytes and using only BUFSIZ-SL for
> the string and the remaining SL bytes for the terminator?
>
> I realize that at this point we're down to nitpicking because the
> program seems really good and fast now.
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

A few benchmark timings:

I updated a version of knucleotide.adb with the new get_line.
IO overhead fell from 3.6 sec on my machine, to 1.2 sec.
It now reads and stores (half of) the 250 MB text file in about
the same time as my vim editor. Very nice result, especially
for the multitasking program, which can parallelize everything
except IO.

Jonathan