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

[Brian K. White]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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?

That analogy is about as electrical as a fish needs a bicycle.

You can't use a typewriter to cool things nor use a refrigerator to produce
a document.

You can however do many of the exact same things with either report or
clerk. Often times with not even any way to say that one way is clearly more
efficient than the other. Especially when you consider all aspects of the
job not just the system resources required to run the final process or the
speed with which it runs.

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