<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 December 2010 17:57, Alan Gauld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.gauld@btinternet.com">alan.gauld@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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"Stefan Behnel" <<a href="mailto:stefan_ml@behnel.de" target="_blank">stefan_ml@behnel.de</a>> wrote<br>
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But I don't understand how uncompressing a file before parsing it can<br>
be faster than parsing the original uncompressed file?<br>
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I didn't say "uncompressing a file *before* parsing it". I meant uncompressing the data *while* parsing it.<br>
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Ah, ok that can work, although it does add a layer of processing<br>
to identify compressed v uncompressed data, but if I/O is the<br>
bottleneck then it could give an advantage.<br></blockquote></div><br>OK my apologies, I see my previous response was already circumscribed by later emails (which I had not read yet.) Feel free to ignore it. :)<br><br>Walter<br>