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Re: st: Slowing process when running a program with multiple nested loops


From   David Kantor <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Slowing process when running a program with multiple nested loops
Date   Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:05:02 -0500

Hi Ly,

I didn't suppose that you needed to cut back the depth of nesting; it seemed that the nesting structure is intrinsic to the task.
But if it works, then okay.

The point to know is that when a segment of code is inside a loop that gets repeated many times, it should be as time-efficient as possible. Plus, reading/writing files is much slower than computations and memory-read/write operations.

I'm glad that its working well for you now.
--David


At 10:23 PM 1/14/2013, you wrote:
Hi David,

Thank you for your quick and very thorough response.
Thanks to your suggestions, I did go back and found a way to speed up
the program by rewriting the 4 ado files (which in turns allow me to
cut back on the nested loops).

Thanks so so much.

--
Ly Tran
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