From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,95c23095599677a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-21 18:12:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!feeder.qis.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Optimization Question Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:57:56 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <94g431$ge3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <94ftfu$b59$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Jan 22 01:57:56 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x65.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4291 Date: 2001-01-22T01:57:56+00:00 List-Id: In article <94ftfu$b59$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, dvdeug@my-deja.com wrote: <> I am *amazed* that this is only ten times slower when the I/O is done in such a perfectly gruesome manner (sequential I/O instantiated on bytes). It is elementary that you want to read big chunks of a file at a time. What GNAT does is to read the entire source of a program in one read statement. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/