Richard,
It's expected to take a somewhat arbitrary time. It reads ASCII.
I have tried multiple times and the pattern is not changing.
The start-up time is going to be large because of having to find the first frequency, which means you have to parse the text nonetheless.
Understood. But that overhead seems to be relatively small. In my test, it seemed to take 4-7 s to reach the first frequency. Anyhow, this goes in the other direction. To minimise the parsing to reach the first frequency, it should be better to read all in one go, and not in parts (which is the case for me).
Bye, Patrick
