Never checked but FIND and LOCATE could be the same subroutine.
Lookup in a sorted string is definitely faster - with randomly distributed search strings the expected number of comparisons are halfed. If the strings to lookup tend to be early in the sort order the performance is even better. But You need a good number of searches to pay for the time used to sort. -- mats Barry Brevik wrote:
When using FIND or LOCATE on a dynamic array, is one faster than the other, and is there any reason to sort the array to (hopefully) improve the speed of FIND or LOCATE? I don't need to use LOCATE... BY... SETTING, I'm just doing a raw FIND or LOCATE. Barry Brevik ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
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