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Hi Craig, >Is it possible using the CRTL? I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect >Perl to do better than C can do. Here's what seems to me like the >relevant section from the CRTL manual: No, it's not reasonable to expect Perl to do better than CRTL. I hadn't consulted the CRTL manual before making my comments. >> When I'm writing programs I assume that each 'print' statement will >> result >> in one output record. I susppose you could arrange for each 'print' >> to be >> followed by a flush to disk at that point, but of course performance >> would >> probably suffer. > >What about printing a list? Should each list item produce a new >record, or should all elements be coalesced into a single (potentially >humongous) write because they all came from one print statement? I'm >not sure a print statement that can function as a list operator maps >very well onto your assumption; Perl ain't Fortran. Fair enough! JeremyThread Previous