Siegfried Gonzi schrieb am Dienstag, den 20. Mai 2003:
> Is there a better way in Ocaml to read a file line by line than via the 
> read_line function?

Yes: use "input_line"! "read_line" flushes stdout, which you'll probably
not need.

> I am not sure how quick List.rev actually is?

As quick as it can be...

This problem is most likely not related to List.rev.

> In Bigloo reversing a list 
> has more or less no overhead. My Bigloo function is similar to my OCaml 
> function. Could it be that OCaml is that slow because I use "try and 
> with" constructs in order to check for the end of a file?

If you create the exception handler within a loop, this will also be a bit
costly. The loop should be within the exception handler, not vice versa.

Regards,
Markus Mottl

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