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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/23/2012 8:21 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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! :)

I am no Cobol expert, but that would surprise me.

Another joke?

Arne