I am not sure what you mean by read normally instead of line-by-line.

I mean doing read(FH, $buf, $size); instead of my $buf = <FH>;. The plain read() call is faster than line-by-line reading, though generally harder to program around for many practical purposes. Most of the time, disk access will be a greater factor than the method of reading the file, so it's not something that I lose sleep over.

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