Read large stream from STDIN

[tferic]

I noticed that there are performance issues with eachline() as well.
For these performance reasons, I have opened a new thread here:

Bad performance of eachline() on STDIN

Hi I am trying to use Julia for general purpose programming. I am trying to use Julia to create a faster version of a Perl script, which is supposed to create a report on a large logfile, piped into STDIN. The logfile does not fit into RAM, hence the data needs to be read from STDIN line-by-line from the data stream. My problem is that Julia (1.5.3) is twice as slow as Perl. I was able to identify one of the main problems, which is the code to read line-by-line from the input stream. I use …