It is certainly not my aim to make life difficult for anybody and I did not ask anybody to debug any code for me on their systems. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matthew Brand wrote: > > 1!:1 and 1!:2 are faster than fread, fwrite if you know what the format > of > > the file is? > > On your own system, I venture your hand-written 1!:-based code > wouldn't be significantly different from what fread/fwrite do once > they have figured out what needs to be done for the platform -- a > miniscule intial step more. Any computational differences should > also pale in this context: I/O time should be dominating anyway. > > 1!:1 and 1!:2 ARE faster than fread, fwrite if your aim is to make > life difficult in this forum for people running those Other File > Formats and cut'n'pasting your code to debug it for you on their > systems. > > Martin > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
