Ceci n'est pas une char

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Jari-Matti wrote:
> That's very true. A "normal" hard drive reads 60 MB/s. So,
> reading a 4 MB file takes at least 66 ms and a 1 MB UTF-8-file (only
> ASCII-characters) is read in 17 ms (well, I'm a bit optimistic here :).
> A modern processor executes 3 000 000 000 operations in a
> second. Going through the UTF-8 stream takes 1 000 000 * 10 (perhaps?)
> operations and thus costs 3 ms. So it's actually faster to read UTF-8.

1) your sample: English (consider Chinese)
2) magic word: seek

Thomas


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