Need for Speed ppps

[Mark Smith]

Ah, I think that would explain why the append method is not providing  
much of a speed gain. I think it only does when the data starts  
getting big enough that the engine may be moving 10s of megabytes  
around in memory. Even so, the fact that append 'kept up"  with RAM  
with data of just 1-2 MB suggests that a lot of memory moving is  
going on.


Best,

Mark

On 17 Jul 2007, at 08:03, Beynon, Rob wrote:

> the output file would be typically 1-2MB