which is faster for searching?

Kay C Lan lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 20:59:43 EDT 2014


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> I put 500,000 lines...
> The repeat loop took 153 ms and the filter took 38ms.

That's more like it. Skip's 'just a couple of seconds' must have been
for some extremely long lines of difficult data with some very
convoluted search criteria. For me, repeat for each has always been a
ms process until I get well into millions of records.




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