On Mar 31, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com<mailto:tom.brow...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Thursday, March 31, 2016, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl<mailto:l...@dijkmat.nl>> wrote: > On 31 Mar 2016, at 14:12, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > Liz, it's a simple reader of a text file. The only line processing is a > print of the number of characters of each line. I guess I should eliminate > that but I assumed that was neglible since all the reader scripts do the same. I wonder. I wouldn’t be surprised if not printing number of chars would make a significant difference. I'll try turning any line processing off, but note the Perl 5 reader does the same thing. Best, -Tom Just to note, I have also seen dramatic differences in IO between Perl 5 and Perl 6, simply iterating through large files (in this case DNA sequence data) by line w/ no processing. Chris
