BCLERK -vs- ROLC [was: Re: Getting there quickly...]

[John Esak]

:-)
Well, Bob (the timer), this is really interesting... and I just wanted to
comment that this is much more scientific than your "blinky cursor counting"
method of timing things which I liked so well from back in early CompuServe
days! :-)

John

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Bob
> Stockler
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:56 PM
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> Subject: BCLERK -vs- ROLC [was: Re: Getting there quickly...]
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:17:45AM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> [snip]
>
> There is no doubt that the method posted by JE is easier and
> faster to set up.  Using mktable.pl instantly created the
> processing table, and a cut and paste did the shell script.
>
> But it's difficult to tell whether one or the other - BCLERK
> or ROLC - is faster.  Both are instantaneous.
>
> So I executed:
>
>   time rolc radley
>
> and pressed x as soon after [Enter] as I could, then excuted:
>
>   time bclerk radley
>
> and pressed q as soon after [Enter] as I could.
>
> I did this several times, and it appears bclerk is maybe a few
> hundredths of a second faster.
>
> Bob (AKA "Stockler the timer")
>
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