Reading large files

[Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva <ventonegro@...>]

Hallo,

    I've seen this in the monotone mailing list:

"The current method for determining if a file is binary involves reading 
in the entire file into memory in lua, and then calling a C++
function to determine if that string is binary.  Lua is stunningly 
inefficient at reding in a large file (reading in 100MiB copies 1.4GiB)."

    Is this true? I'm skeptical of this.

-alex
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