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| Reply To: | VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1) |
| Date: | Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:35:38 -0800 |
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> We had a programmer who was processing a file by using the
> PRINT command and starting and ending records. Since each
> time you did a PRINT it had to start from the beginning,
> it worked okay for small test files, but quickly started
> taking an hour to process a production sized file.
> This was a BIG problem for a job that was running hourly!
Yes it would be! In my "CI Programming" talk at the Solution
Symposium, on Wed. Feb 7 after lunch, I will discuss three ways to
read from(or write to) a file, with performance measurements of each.
The PRINT approach is by far the slowest. I will post the talk on
Jazz after the Symposium.
regards,
Jeff Vance, CSY
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