On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > freed and available segment of memory that was used. My WAG is that if > > you changed the order of the different ways of reading the whole file, > > the first read will take longer than the others. > > Exactly. > Anyway the time is the order of a few seconds, not minutes. >
In fact a way to account for this effect is to pre-allocate the chunk of memory before doing the first read, e.g. $file_size=-s "Test2.txt"; undef $whole_file; $whole_file.=chr(0) x 100 until ($file_size-=100) <= 0; undef $whole_file; It might even be interesting to calculate the elapsed time to complete the memory allocation. **** [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Carl Jolley> **** All opinions are my own and not necessarily those of my employer **** _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
