[Info-vax] READ and WRITE vs. SEARCH/OUTPUT

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/23/2012 6:58 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:29:00 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply
> wrote:
>> Some tests indicate that SEARCH is much faster.  Can one depend on this
>> always being the case?
>
> 1. If you try the comparison on a VAX, you are probably looking at SEARCH
> being many times faster than DCL.
>
> 2. Empirical testing I did back in VAX days suggested that given
> sufficient memory SEARCH uses larger buffers than, say, a COBOL
> executable.

Wouldn't that depend on how the COBOL program was written?

Arne