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Subject: Re: Ada Shootout program for K-Nucleotide (patches)
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On 1 Aug., 17:21, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org>:

> I note that both Martin and yourself use Ada.Text_IO (especially
> Read_Line) which is notoriously slow. =A0I would use Character'Read and
> a finite state machine to detect the portion of the input file to be
> processed, then to fill in the buffer. =A0That should be faster.
>
> (the shootout rules state that the program must read "line by line"
> but that does not make sense since Unix has no concept of a line and
> all programs must therefore read and parse each byte to detect ends of
> lines).

Some Ada shootout programs also use GNAT.IO, it might help.
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