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in thread Deciding for a file access method - requesting opinions

I'm not trying to figure out how to prevent concurrent access. I'm just not sure whethe

Then re-read your pros & cons for the 3 methods you describe and eliminate all mentions of "must protect file from change" and similar.

How do you expect us to understand your motivations when you describe your priorities this way?

For the rest; for files up to 1/4 GB it doesn't matter whether you slurp them, so use whichever method fits with whatever you have used in your "working parser".


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Re^6: Deciding for a file access method - requesting opinions
by Monk::Thomas (Friar) on Jul 15, 2015 at 18:35 UTC

    @concurrency mentions: I see. I have updated the node accordingly.