On 21 December 2010 17:57, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > "Stefan Behnel" <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote > > But I don't understand how uncompressing a file before parsing it can >>> be faster than parsing the original uncompressed file? >>> >> >> I didn't say "uncompressing a file *before* parsing it". I meant >> uncompressing the data *while* parsing it. >> > > Ah, ok that can work, although it does add a layer of processing > to identify compressed v uncompressed data, but if I/O is the > bottleneck then it could give an advantage. > OK my apologies, I see my previous response was already circumscribed by later emails (which I had not read yet.) Feel free to ignore it. :) Walter
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