Directory of c:\test

03/05/06  02:45p            10,400,001 10000k.txt
03/05/06  02:44p             1,040,000 1000k.txt
03/05/06  02:42p               104,001 100k.txt
               3 File(s)     11,544,002 bytes
                             95,741,952 bytes free


c:\test>255837 100k.txt
Read to array
Read forward
Read backward
Tie::File
1 trial of read-to-array (150.000ms total)

1 trial of read-forward (91ms total)

1 trial of File::ReadBackwards (10ms total)

1 trial of Tie::File (580ms total)

c:\test>255837 1000k.txt
Read to array
Read forward
Read backward
Tie::File
1 trial of read-to-array (1.071s total)

1 trial of read-forward (942ms total)

1 trial of File::ReadBackwards (10ms total)

1 trial of Tie::File (6.359s total)

c:\test>255837 10000k.txt
Read to array
Read forward
Read backward
Tie::File
1 trial of read-to-array (10.475s total)

1 trial of read-forward (10.165s total)

1 trial of File::ReadBackwards (10ms total)

1 trial of Tie::File (66.065s total)