Greetings, Gentle Monks,

Still a duffer so this makes me fret.

I was slurping in a couple of similar sized files with something close to:

for $file (@list)
{open INPUT, "$file" or die;
@partial = <INPUT>;
push @complete, @partial;}

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Basically concatenating the files. For an unknown reason (at least to me) the second file was about three times slower reading than the first. Reversing the order of the files exhibited the same behavior--the second file read took significantly longer. Things got better, and a LOT faster with:

for $file (@list)
{open INPUT, "$file" or die;
@complete = <INPUT>;}

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Comments? Explanations? General ideas?

In any case, many thanks for your attention.

In reply to slow file slurping by hill

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