Hi All,
Just wondering: Using LiveCode could you split and compress
this 38 gb text file in 10,000 smaller files?
Some years ago, when I was interested in creating
an Offline Wikipedia Reader (using Livecode),
I found the same problem to gather all parts
of an article from compressed files.
A
On 22/03/2016 14:24, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Given that the engine is probably already doing pretty much the same
thing, would it make sense to consider a readBufferSize global
property which would govern the size of the buffer the engine uses
when executing "read...until "?
In my experiments
Very helpful info - thanks!
I'll see if I can dig up my old experiment code and submit a tidy
version with an enhancement request.
My hope was that it might be as simple as "Aha, yes, as bigger buffer
size!", but few things in life are that simple. :)
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World System
On 2016-03-22 15:24, Richard Gaskin wrote:
What is the size of the read buffer used when reading until ?
I'm assuming it isn't reading a single char per disk access, probably
at least using the file system's block size, no?
Well, the engine will memory map files if it can (if there is availabl
