On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:40:23PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> is this a known performance issue with the CamlZip library?

I found the same thing when I was writing approx, so I use a "gunzip"
process with Sys.command.  (You can also use open_process_in, but I
just decompress to a temporary file and then reread it.  That also
catches corrupt .gz files in a more robust way.)

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