. On Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 10:22 PM Lawrence Velázquez <v...@larryv.me> wrote:
> > On Mar 16, 2021, at 11:08 PM, Dennis Williamson < > dennistwilliam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've been playing with your optimized code changing the read to grab data > > in chunks like some of the other optimized code does - thus extending > your > > move from by-word to by-line reading to reading a specified larger number > > of characters. > > > > IFS= read -r -N 4096 var > > > > And appending the result of a regular read to end at a newline. This > seemed > > to cut about 20% off the time. But I get different counts than your code. > > I've tried using read without specifying a variable and using the > resulting > > $REPLY to preserve whitespace but the counts still didn't match. > > > > In any case this points to larger chunks being more efficient. > > Wrong thread? > > vq Oops