Don't you know anything about /filter at all? AT ALL? I find it SO frustrating people don't understand what is truly a basic concept.
Consistently performs twice as fast as the file handling method
Oh yeah, less code too.
When reading a 5000-line file from the beginning on 6.35 your /filter method is considerably faster than the /fseek method, but it seems to be slightly
slower on 7.08 (ouch). In both versions /fseek is much faster at reaching the last position in the file for subsequent calls, which is important when polling frequently.