Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis: > I just took a look at your program, which ran in 40s on my machine. > Under callgrind it turned out that we were doing a lot of iconv stuff > that we didn't need to do.
It’s often the case that I/O is faster if you explicitly say that the
port is UTF-8-encoded, because there’s a fast path for that (not using
iconv) in 2.0:
(with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding "UTF-8"))
(call-with-input-file file
...))
Ludo’.
