Darren Hoo writes:
> It is way too slow to read numbers from a file simply by using `read'
Indeed. Looking at the code, I can see a lot of room for improvement,
especially in 'string->number' (which is used also by 'read'). I've
added an item to my TODO list to optimize this. Hopefully by 2.0
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 05:55, Darren Hoo writes:
> (define (read-test1)
> (with-input-from-file
> "rnd.txt"
> (lambda ()
> (let lp ((i (read)))
> (if (not (eof-object? i))
> (lp (read)))
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> ,time (read-test1)
> ;; 37
Andy Wingo 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 ther
