Somebody try timing it with 10K names and let us know the speed differences :)
On 8/27/07, Rex Gozar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > > In terms of "which is better" for sorting inside a program, working with > in-memory strings should be faster than writing to disk. And with less > than a thousand names, it probably won't be noticeably faster whether > you UPCASE() each time you insert, or maintain a separate UPCASE'd variable. > > I'm guessing that you'll also have an ID value associated with the name; > that means LOCATE'ing on values. Field-marks in Universe (and I'm > guessing in Unidata too) are optimized for traversing back and forth. > Value-marks aren't, so when you INSERT a value after a LOCATE, the > run-machine has to start at character one and find each value until it > hits the specific value mark count. Ideally, you should be using > field-mark delimited lists, but practically I don't think it would be > noticeable. > > rex > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
