Reading bytes from stdin efficiently

[Jon Harrop]

I can read bytes from a FileStream with stream.ReadByte() but that does not
handle stdin. I can read from stdin with System.Console.In using
reader.Read() but it is 6x slower.

So how do I read bytes from stdin efficiently?

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[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Jon,

The comparison to reading from a file is comparing apples to oranges.
The mechanism might be the same, but you are in fact reading from two
separate sources which have different performance profiles.

I don't know if you can make it any faster, but you can try calling
GetStdHandle through the P/Invoke layer to see if you can get any better
results.
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>
I can read bytes from a FileStream with stream.ReadByte() but that does
not
handle stdin. I can read from stdin with System.Console.In using
reader.Read() but it is 6x slower.

So how do I read bytes from stdin efficiently?

--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?u

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On Jun 4, 5:37 pm, Jon Harrop <[e-mail]:

I can read bytes from a FileStream with stream.ReadByte() but that does not
handle stdin. I can read from stdin with System.Console.In using
reader.Read() but it is 6x slower.

So how do I read bytes from stdin efficiently?

Well, one problem is that Console.In doesn't handle bytes - it handles
*characters*. I would be somewhat wary of trying to pipe non-textual
information via Console.In. There may well be a sure-fire way of
getting it to work (and Console.OpenStandardInput would be my first
port of call) but I'd still be somewhat wary.

Is this in aid of optimising the sumcol (or sumfile, the name seems to
vary) benchmark?

Jon

[Jon Harrop]

Jon Skeet [C# MVP] wrote:

On Jun 4, 5:37 pm, Jon Harrop <[e-mail]:

>I can read bytes from a FileStream with stream.ReadByte() but that does
not handle stdin. I can read from stdin with System.Console.In using
reader.Read() but it is 6x slower.

So how do I read bytes from stdin efficiently?

Console.OpenStandardInput would be my first port of call...

That is exactly the answer I was looking for, thank you.

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