On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:45:40 -0700 Bob goolsby <bob.gool...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before you go off on a goose chase, how do you know that substr() is > going to be a problem for you? Have you bench-marked it? If your > file is as large as you say, I strongly suspect that your bottleneck > is going to be I/O and any differences between unpack() and substr() > will be lost in the noise band below 1%. ^^ This. Kavita, I'd strongly advise profiling your script with Devel::NYTProf to see exactly where the time is being spent; it can be a surprise sometimes. Once you've got some profiling data showing you where the most time is spent, you know where to focus your efforts. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
