Re: Optimization Question

[dvdeug@my-deja.com]

In article <3A6C8432.665A730C@mail.com>,
  "M. Kotiaho" <mylastname@mail.com> wrote:
> As has been pointed out elsewhere, you can use Streams to read "big
chunks"
> at a time.  As you pointed out, you don't want to read 17 GB into
memory.

That's actually a moot point, as the GNAT runtime on Linux/i386 seems to
have as much problems handling the file as most C programs. It
appears I'm going to have to run it through a pipe . . .

> You also might want to buffer your output, rather than outputting
> the
> strings as soon as they are located.

My biggest problem with this is that it was a nice simple program until
buffering started coming in. I guess if I can get it significatly faster
than GNU strings, I may as well finish up the details and release it . .
.

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