[REBOL] Re: byte frequencies
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 6-Jul-2001 13:38
Jeff Kreis wrote:
> If you assume that NULL chars in your files are infrequent you
> can just use a 1-based index.
>
It is not an option simply to ignore some character values.
> If you're handling very large files you'd want to use:
>
> fi: open/binary/direct fi
>
> while [ch: pick fi 1][
> ....
> fi: next fi
> ]
>
> That will be much faster over some minimum size.
>
Perhaps I'll have a chance to do some benchmarking to get a clue
as to what qualifies as "some minimum size".
-jn-
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