On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>wrote:
> If the final output is going to disk, you may find that opening the output > file for append yields what I believe is the fastest write mode (CouchDB > and some others are append-only). Perhaps buffering some of the output and > appending in batches may be optimal > Absolutely true, and I made this change a few hours later. Oddly, I found little-to-no difference between open for append vs. open for write -- I expected append to be faster, as you obviously did. I also found little difference between large and small batches in the write command. Very puzzling. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode