If I'm reading in many-megabyte files, is it considered to be more efficient
to read it into an array, then loop over the array? Or is reading a line at
a time okay?
e.g.
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while (<>) {
# do some process with each line
}
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or...
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@lines = <>;
foreach (@lines) {
# do some process with each line
}
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I realize the second will use more memory, but what's a few megabytes in
today's computers? I'm more worried about the OS having to go back to the
disk a couple hundred-thousand times -- seems like it'd be hard on the disk.
TIA.
- Bryan
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