On Aug 7, 5:43 am, Peter Schuller <peter.schul...@infidyne.com> wrote: > Interesting. Why do you consider it recommended to read one character > at a time in a case like this? Maybe there is such a recommendation > that I don't know about, but in general I would consider it contrary > to expected practice when doing I/O if performance is a concern.
That's not a practice I'm familiar with either. Everything I've ever read on I/O tuning suggests that reading single char is worst-case performance, which seems borne out here. Maybe this seems like a low-priority issue but I think slurp is likely to be very commonly used. For instance, the Riak tutorial just posted to Hacker News uses it: http://mmcgrana.github.com/2010/08/riak-clojure.html -- miles -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en