What are you using to time the app? I'm using timeit (from the Windows
Server 2003 Resource Kit). I'm getting similar results to yours. Btw, how do
you use a warm disk cache? Is there a setting somewhere for that?
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:54 PM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com>wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic:
>
> > Andrei used to!string() in an early example in TDPL for some line-by-line
> > processing. I'm not sure of the advantages/disadvantages of to!type vs
> .dup.
>
> I have modified the code:
>
> import std.stdio: File, writeln;
> import std.conv: to;
>
> int process(string fileName) {
> int total = 0;
>
> auto file = File(fileName);
> foreach (rawLine; file.byLine()) {
> string line = to!string(rawLine);
> total += line.length;
> }
> file.close();
>
> return total;
> }
>
> void main(string[] args) {
> if (args.length == 2)
> writeln("Total: ", process(args[1]));
> }
>
>
> The run time is 1.29 seconds, showing this is equivalent to the idup.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
>
