hmm. The fact that the files are cached makes it nicer. I didn't want to use it inside a loop (TRANS() that is), and waste a lot of time with repeated OPEN/READs, in that case I'd have done an OPEN, then used READS.
But if the OPEN is cached, great, it's just like doing the OPEN once. Since this application does not need to write, nor set locks, the TRANS may be a nice option. George -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Allen E. Elwood Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 12:54 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] OPEN vs TRANS Hey George, I've always established dict names using TRANS in the base file, and then created my SUBR type DICT and passed them that way. It just makes it *so* much easier to code, and have really never noticed any difference between the TRANS method or using OPEN and READS. Plus most of the times I was doing this my boss was charging the client 175 an hour and speed of programming was considered MUCH more important than speed of execution. The way I look at it, when I started programming 30 years ago systems were millions of times slower, and in another 30 years they'll be so stinking fast that coding for speed will go the way of the Suchomimus and the Iguanodon! Like...systems will be accessing data at quad-terabytes per nanosecond over wireless photonic motherboards the size of a dime.....you know? http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/dmlf.htm Allen ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
