Fastest FileLoading Techniquie for simple VB
In All the other methods I've tried, I run into a barrier(around 170K+) where loading a file suddenly becomes very slow. I've tried many methods found here and in books, and none have proven to work as well as I was looking for. After a long search I ended up spending some off-time figuring a way out myself. This is what I came up with.(speed increases from 20 seconds@170k to .4 seconds@170k)
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Public Function LoadBin(Path As String) As String On Error GoTo hell' isn't that where errors belong? Dim nfile As String ' This becomes the file memory Dim i As Long ' temp int i = FreeFile ' Gets a free file number so that this code doesn't interfere with anything else. Open Path For Binary As i ' read the file raw nfile = String(LOF(i), " ") ' create a string in memory that is the size of the file. Get i, , nfile ' in one pass, load the entire file as a single record. Close i ' clean up the mess LoadBin = nfile 'set the return value hell: ' this is where it goes if the code breaks anyway. End Function
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