'How can I read data faster?

Hmmm... its kinda challenging to find a method for reading/writing data faster enough to get ACCEPTED in this problem ( https://www.spoj.pl/problems/INTEST/ ) using F#.

My code ( http://paste.ubuntu.com/548748/ ) gets TLE...

Any ideas how to speed up data reading?

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Solution 1:^[1]

I don't actually know, but I would guess that reading a since character at a time is bad, and you should read e.g. 4k into a buffer at a time and then process the buffer.

Solution 2:^[2]

let buf =
    let raw = System.Console.OpenStandardInput()
    let bytebuf = new System.IO.BufferedStream(raw)
    new System.IO.StreamReader(bytebuf)

buf.Read()     // retrieves a single character as an int from the buffer
buf.ReadLine() // retrieves a whole line from the buffer

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Solution 1	Brian
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'How can I read data faster?

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