On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:20:43AM -0700, Paul wrote:
> print <IN>;
>
> If IN is accessing a large file, does the second syntax try to slurp
> the whole thing into memory before printing it? Or is there some
> internal optimization that doles it through in bufferloads?
AFAIK, print <IN> is not special-cased to read chunk by chunk. In fact,
it's more ineffecient than simply slurping the entire file in and then
printing it. The syntax is equivalent to:
print join($", <IN>);
Michael
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