Re: Reading the while standard input into a String

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Natasha Kerensikova wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> However I thought that something similar to C's fread(), which can use
>> efficient bulk memory copy, would be better than a loop of single
>> character read (even when buffered in memory).
>
> How about:
>
> procedure Read_In_Chunks (Stream : in out
> Ada.Streams.Root_Stream_Type'Class;
>                           Result : out
> Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String) is
[...]

I think I'm guilty of premature optimization.  I'd be curious to know
whether Read_In_Chunks is actually faster than simply reading one
character at a time and appending it to Result.  Only a benchmark
could tell for sure.

--
Ludovic Brenta.