Re: Sequence error in MR

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Palmer wrote:

> There's one word missing from this discussion.  Performance. 
> Now I'm citing numbers here from 10 years ago at least, on ancient 
> hardware, but I rewrote a program someone had written to update a large 
> master file from a transaction file.  It was written using either CHAIN or 
> SETLL/READ (I can't recall) and I changed it to use MR logic.  The run 
> time dropped from approx 4 hours to 40 mins.  And before anyone asks, no I 
> don't care to recreate a similar test today, but if anyone want to go 
> ahead I'd be happy to hear the results.  :-)

I think I remember that.  Wasn't it on the old Newslink forum?

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