Re: Question about reducing program start overhead

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Programming for performance is hard to do with simple gut checks like you 
suggested.

I chopped an hour or so off of one update and got it down to just a few 
minutes by significantly reducing the number of updates.  There were 
several "many" relations in the "from" file for each of the "one" 
relations in the "to" file.  So instead of updating the to file for each 
read of the from file, I sorted the from file by the key of the to file 
and only updated at control break time.
So, when one suggests something without the audience understanding the 
full problem I don't think we can justly answer that.

Rob Berendt