From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Reading the while standard input into a String
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:14:57 -0400
Date: 2011-06-06T18:14:57-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccipsili8u.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e483abef-a9d3-40f2-90fd-66d8a1bb3f95@p13g2000yqh.googlegroups.com
Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> Personally I think this is a fundamentally bad idea. Consider:
>
> $ my_program < /dev/random
What do you expect
sort /dev/random
to do? Or
tail /dev/random
?
;-) ;-)
> Note that reading one character at a time from a stream is quite fast
> since streams normally use the operating system's buffered IO. Adding
> a second layer of buffering inside your program is probably counter-
> productive.
Yes, probably.
- Bob
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2011-06-05 16:20 Reading the while standard input into a String Natasha Kerensikova
2011-06-06 1:49 ` robin
2011-06-06 7:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-06 10:46 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2011-06-06 12:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-06 16:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-06-06 17:42 ` Pascal Obry
2011-06-06 17:43 ` Pascal Obry
2011-06-06 18:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-06 8:09 ` stefan-lucks
2011-06-06 8:33 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-06-06 10:08 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2011-06-06 10:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-06-06 10:31 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-06-06 12:07 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2011-06-06 15:18 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-06-06 18:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-06 18:36 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-06-06 18:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-06 19:10 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-06-06 19:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-06 23:37 ` Shark8
2011-06-07 3:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-06-07 7:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-07 7:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-06-07 8:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-07 3:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-06-06 19:06 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-06-06 19:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-07 3:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-06-06 22:14 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2011-06-06 9:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-06 11:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-06 12:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-06 13:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-06 14:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-06-06 14:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-07 3:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-06-06 18:14 ` John B. Matthews
2011-06-07 10:23 ` Martin
2011-06-07 16:57 ` John B. Matthews
2011-06-07 17:22 ` Robert A Duff
2011-06-07 17:55 ` John B. Matthews
2011-06-08 0:26 ` Robert A Duff
2011-06-08 7:38 ` Egil Høvik
2011-06-08 9:27 ` Martin
2011-06-08 12:04 ` Egil Høvik
2011-06-08 18:09 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-06-09 0:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-06-10 8:22 ` Martin
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