I don't think there's a good answer to this other than "Do it in C" but I thought I'd ask anyway. I'm reading in several hundred 20k line standard data text files, with space delimited numbers like so, though with up to 8 data columns:
# time data1 data2
0.000000 99.537 54.54
1.000000 100.273 121.54
2.000000 98.169 121.58
3.000000 105.835 99.66
4.000000 93.013 1.85
The time spent spliting the lines is about 10% of my program run time, so I was wondering if there was an easy way to speed it up. Just reading the files from disk seems to be about half my runtime, so no dramatic improvements possible. But look at the code, maybe a restructuring would be faster? Here's what I'm doing now:
# Each data point is stored in a separate file, so they have
# to be joined first. I figure the shell is faster at that
# than perl. That and I wasn't excited about managing
# n file handles at a time, though it wouldn't be too bad.
my @lines = `join file1 file2 file3 file4`;
foreach my $line (@lines) {
my ($time, @data) = split /\s+/, $line;
foreach my $datum (@data) {
# unlock the secrets of the universe
}
}
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