Re: [Caml-list] best and fastest way to read lines from a file?

[Olivier Roussel <olivier.roussel@crans.org>]

YC a écrit :
> Hi all -
Hi!
> OCaml code:
> (* test.ml <http://test.ml> *)
> let rec line_count filename =
>   let f = open_in filename in
>   let rec loop file count =
>     try
>       ignore (input_line file);
>       loop file (count + 1)
>     with
>       End_of_file -> count
>   in
>     loop f 0;;
> 
> let count = line_count <345k-line.txt> in
>     Printf.printf "Done: %d" count;;
The following solution is ~2.5x faster than the Python implementation on 
my computer. Because there is no more exceptions in recursive calls, and 
thanks to tail-recursion.

let readline f =
   try Some (input_line f)
   with End_of_file -> None;;

let line_count filename =
   let f = open_in filename in
   let rec loop count =
     match (readline f) with
       | Some(_) -> loop (count+1)
       | None -> count in
   loop 0;;

let count = line_count <345k-line.txt> in
Printf.printf "Done: %d\n" count;;


-- 
Olivier Roussel