REPORT Faster Than CLERK [was: Something Else]

[Bob Stockler]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:46:40PM -0400, Mark Luljak wrote:
| 
| I was told by two people that using *report is faster than using *clerk by
| about 30%.  I've never had the occasion to test this claim, however.

I don't know about the percentage, nor do I know what one
intends to do, but on my SCO OSR 5.0.6 filePro v5.0.07D4
system I see:

  -rwsr-xr-x   1 filepro  sys       851032 Nov 14  2001 dclerk
  -rwsr-xr-x   1 filepro  sys       782660 Nov 14  2001 dreport
  -rwsr-xr-x   1 filepro  sys       800208 Nov 14  2001 rclerk
  -rwsr-xr-x   1 filepro  sys       729324 Nov 14  2001 rreport

So, REPORT has less to load.

And, if the -f output format is a processing only format, and
it's used with a -v table and -y '' -z '' it has to consume
less overhead and the -v with -a -i[index] enters a file NOW!.

With no screens to be concerned with, that's got to be faster
than CLERK, even if by only .00001 %.

Bob

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