On Sunday 03 Jan 2010 07:12:32 Parag Kalra wrote: > Thanks Shlomi for your expert comments and I must admit you have got a very > strong vision. :) >
You're welcome. > Anyways coming to my first question: > > a.) What do I need to do to make sure that length of new file will > > increase > > > every time the step 4 is executed. > > Although it may have nothing to do with this algorithm but I still thought > of discussing it. > > Say I have scripts that dumps some contents on to an output file handler > inside a long loop. With such scripts I have noticed 2 types of behaviour. > > 1. The size of this output file is zero while the script is getting > executed inside the loop and it increases only when the script execution > gets over. > > 2. And sometimes I have noticed that the size of output file increases > every time some data is dumped on to it. Thus increase in size happens in > real/run time. > > I want to control this behaviour. What I can guess is that it has something > to do with output buffer. > Please read "Suffering from Buffering": http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Buffering.html Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http://shlom.in/optimise Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
