- use ignore instead of seekg/tellg to swallow input (robuster)
- check for bad gcount() values
- wrap Foam::fileSize() compressed/uncompressed handling into IFstream.
- improve handling of compressed files in masterUncollatedFileOperation.
Previously read into a string via stream iterators.
Now read chunk-wise into a List of char for fewer reallocations.
- In addition to the traditional Flex-based parser, added a Ragel-based
parser and a handwritten one.
Some representative timings for reading 5874387 points (1958129 tris):
Flex Ragel Manual
5.2s 4.8s 6.7s total reading time
3.8s 3.4s 5.3s without point merging
