best way to read a huge ascii file.

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Heli <hemla21 at gmail.com>:

> I have a huge ascii file(40G) and I have around 100M lines. I read this
> file using :
>
> [...]
>
> The problem is reading the file takes around 80 min while the
> interpolation only takes 15 mins.
>
> I was wondering if there is a more optimized way to read the file that
> would reduce the time to read the input file?

It looks pretty fast to me already; that's 20,000 lines per second, or
65 megabits per second.


Marko