[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Scott Dorsey]

Chris Townley  <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Where it was was nothing to do with using a high level language - for 
>example I found a purge program on a large file that took nearly 3 
>hours. It read the whole file sequentially, with a lock, to delete about 
>10% of the records. I changed it to read without a lock, only getting a 
>lock if we needed to delete. Dropped to 10 or 15 minutes. No assembly 
>coded needed

"A penny's worth of better algorithm is worth a million dollars in
faster hardware."  -- gus baird

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