[comp.lang.icon] Speed of Icon

R.J.Hare@EDINBURGH.AC.UK (08/04/89)

I have written a context editor in Icon which is compatible with our local
mainframe editor. The editor is fine but very slow in reading in the text of
the file prior to editing, and slow to write out at the end of an editing
session. The file to be edited is read in as a list of strings, each line
being one item in the list. Does anyone out there have any idea how to speed
up the reading/writing process?
 
Thanks.
 
Roger Hare.