On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 08:52:21AM +0800, Vasily Chekalkin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:35 AM, chromatic <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Friday 20 August 2010 at 18:15, Parrot  wrote:
> >
> >>  I'm not sure why it chooses to use line buffering -- it seems like
> >>  some other strategy would be far more efficient.
> >
> > Agreed, but in browsing the IO code I haven't seen an easy way to specify
> > "Don't read line by line" or an IO function to perform the STRING
> > concatenation at the C level, which won't allocate lots of temporary 
> > immutable
> > STRINGs.
> 
> What about switching to use StringBuilder internally?

Wouldn't StringBuilder still require lots of intermediate strings to
be used as input to the StringBuilder?

Pm
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