Fw: Last call for new features
- Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Jan 15, 1999
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Nevermind, I see we now have get_bytes (). Nice. Ralf >I wrote: >>Alan, there is currently only *one* program that does not load and store >the >>whole file in one pass. >>All other programs, load and store the whole file at once. It would be an >>enourmous speed benefit. And it provides cleaner code. Off course, we could >>make it ourselves, but then we would be "dynamically building a sequence, >>checking for -1 every cycle" in other words: slow. >> >>And yes, we need to do some routines ourselves. But we have routines for >>wildcard matching, sorting, etc. We have extensive IO routines, but not >just >>the one simple, fast and clean: "read_textfile". >> >>Considering the way euphoria handles IO, there is a need for this. > > >