(sorta)OT: Apache / CGI / fP / printing

[Fairlight]

In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:03:44PM -0400, Kenneth Brody achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> Fairlight wrote:
> > 
> > Simon--er, no...it was Walter Vaughan--said:
> > >
> > > Great googly moogly. I've never had much luck with dclerk. Howie wrote
> > > fpweb IIRC with dclerk, but I've only had dependable luck running
> > > reports to import and export data from filePro.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> That's like saying "using a typewriter is faster than using a microwave".
> Since *report and *clerk do different things, how does one compare timings?

We were discussing using both in CGI contexts.  Apparently the same tasks
ran significantly faster in *report.  I doubt 'time' was used, although the
testing would have been done locally on the LAN.

*shrug*  I just know what I was told.  But I've heard same in the same
context from at least one other person.

mark->
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