One line at a time. Is that significantly slower for stdin? I would assume that ... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		sspiff on April 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby is too slow for programming competitions One line at a time. Is that significantly slower for stdin? I would assume that this wouldn't make a difference, since we're talking about simple memory operations, and 20k method invocations shouldn't be that hard on a modern system.

yxhuvud on May 1, 2013 [–]

stdin? No, that shouldn't matter then, but it would if you were reading from file.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact