Deleting Data Woefully Slow

[Richard Gaskin]

Kay C Lan wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Richard Gaskin
> <ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:
>>
>> Moreover, Raney once noted that he took the time to optimize
>> "put...after..." specifically for cases like yours, so it could be used in
>> conjunction with "repeat for each" to build a subset of data.
>>
>> Richard,
>
> any thoughts as to why delete line -1 is so so much slower than delete line
> 1? Seems illogical.

I'm afraid that one has me mystified as well.  It may have something to 
do with what the engine has to do to traverse to the end of a chunk, but 
I can't imagine why the difference would be so much.

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