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Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk

From "R.Wieser" <address@not.available>
Newsgroups microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk
Date 2019-11-22 15:58 +0100
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Mayayana,

> but don't understand why a file would be read so inefficiently.
> Maybe it's a relic of ReadFile API?

Its possibly related to yester-years low-memory 'puters (in comparision to 
the current ones).  Reading everything and only than convert costs three 
times the size of the file (the data itself and the resulting wide-string 
output).  Than again, the rather inefficient memory management (adding 
bite-sized parts) can't be good either ...

> From your description it appears that is the problem, but in a
> more complicated way than I imagined.

:-)  Yep.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-20 12:54 +0100
  Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-20 08:39 -0500
  Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 00:00 +0700
    Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 12:50 -0500
    Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-21 20:39 +0100
      Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 15:04 -0500
        Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-21 21:46 +0100
          Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-21 16:31 -0500
            Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 09:23 +0100
              Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 09:14 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 15:58 +0100
          Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 19:13 +0700
            Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 15:47 +0100
              Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 10:10 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-22 18:37 +0100
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-22 18:40 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-23 09:19 +0100
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-11-23 10:09 -0500
                Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-11-23 17:36 +0100
      Re: file.ReadAll - another quirk JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-11-22 19:10 +0700

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