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[Caml-list] Reading a large text file

André Luiz Moura
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From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Reading a large text file

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:28:13PM -0300, Andr? Luiz Moura wrote:
> Hi List, 
>  
> I wrote an OCaml function to read a text file with a million of lines with  five separate columns for spaces. I based myself on previous messages of Caml-list, but however the work is taking time frightful (many minutes). 
> This function written in C, for example, does not take more than 4 seconds. 
>  
> I am executing the program in a PC Pentium III of 128 MB of RAM under Windows platform. How would be implemented the function to decide this problem?
> 
> File format:
> <vertex #> <x> <y> [attributes] [boundary marker] 

Post some example code?

Rich.

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