I found it pretty surprising. So thanks to Ludovic Thébault for
suggesting it.
My guess is that if there was a way to allocate a large enough block
of memory before building the variable then it would be faster to do
that. But that's a bit low-level for a 4gl.
Best,
Mark
On 16 Jul 2007, at 21:14, Jim Ault wrote:
This means appending the lines to the end of a file on disk,
reading the
file back into a variable, then deleting the file on disk... is
faster than
building the variable in RAM.
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