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

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In article <4f1e047c$0$281$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?UTF-8?B?QXJuZSBWYWpow7hq?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>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?

Well, I just perused the nearly 4000 lines of BLISS that is SEARCH.  I
doubt there's enough disk space in the known universe to translate all
that logic into COBOL source! :)

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