Terry Vogelaar wrote: > I understand now why my 2nd script was so slow thanks to David. And > like David I really cannot imagine why Richard's suggestion about using > arrays would contribute anything to the speed, but I tried it and it > obviously worked; it reduced my (fastest) 101 seconds to 36!
It's the line-counting. Traversing indexed arrays is a faster operation than counting lines, which includes not only getting a line put appending new lines to the end of a chunk. I hgad a 40mb Web log file that used to take prohibitively long to parse; now it takes under two minutes. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
