From a646584284f63397d05941eaf29f2e7d4fc6d8ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristoffer Carlsson <kcarlsson89@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:13:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] use a type parameter for stream in EachLine, improves
 performance

---
 base/io.jl | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/base/io.jl b/base/io.jl
index b54066137bd37..594a64393d3d3 100644
--- a/base/io.jl
+++ b/base/io.jl
@@ -842,14 +842,13 @@ read(s::IO, T::Type) = error("The IO stream does not support reading objects of
 
 ## high-level iterator interfaces ##
 
-struct EachLine
-    stream::IO
+struct EachLine{IOT <: IO}
+    stream::IOT
     ondone::Function
     keep::Bool
-
-    EachLine(stream::IO=stdin; ondone::Function=()->nothing, keep::Bool=false) =
-        new(stream, ondone, keep)
 end
+EachLine(stream::IO=stdin; ondone::Function=()->nothing, keep::Bool=false) =
+        EachLine(stream, ondone, keep)
 
 """
     eachline(io::IO=stdin; keep::Bool=false)
@@ -898,9 +897,9 @@ function iterate(itr::EachLine, state=nothing)
     (readline(itr.stream, keep=itr.keep), nothing)
 end
 
-eltype(::Type{EachLine}) = String
+eltype(::Type{<:EachLine}) = String
 
-IteratorSize(::Type{EachLine}) = SizeUnknown()
+IteratorSize(::Type{<:EachLine}) = SizeUnknown()
 
 # IOStream Marking
 # Note that these functions expect that io.mark exists for