Could I have some links? It would be very helpful.
Thank You.
On 4/14/06, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
Em Sex, 2006-04-14 às 13:45 +0800, Rajesh Sathyamoorthy escreveu:
> I wanted to know why it is more efficient to read a file in smaller
> chunks ( using file() or open() )?
It's more efficient in some cases, and worse on others. It also depends
on how you implement the read loop. I won't elaborate too much here,
there are loads of sites and books that talk about this topic.
> If this is not done, will this lead to errors in the data read or just
> results in slower performance?
It doesn't corrupt anything, unless you have a buggy hardware.
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