Aristotle, yes it is for a forum...

I wrote it 4-5 years ago and its been chugging along very nicely for all those years. It's not heavily used, ie: typically only 0-12 people using it at any one time...

However, the io processing has been noticed by my ISP hence my attempts to reduce it.

I've made a number of mods already that have generally improved/reduced io processes, but one of the biggest hogs is when postting a message.

It seems at the least with writing:-
a) Just by adding "binmode" prior to the write that will more than half the io. And this can be applied to all such writes to improve across the board!
b) By consolidating an array into a variable that will further reduce the io. However, I don't like the idea of having a loop which goes through X thousand records, and having the data held twice (once in the array and once in a variable) at the same time!

So my two questions are currently:-
a) Is there a simple means of improving the reading, as has seemingly been found for the write. Reading in 4K chunks, blah!
b) Is there a better means of printing the array as a consolidated variable, so the data is not held twice in memory etc.

In reply to Re^2: Perl always reads in 4K chunks and writes in 1K chunks... Loads of IO! by NeilF
in thread Perl always reads in 4K chunks and writes in 1K chunks... Loads of IO! by NeilF

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