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ben.powell@CLA.CO.UK wrote:
> How fast?
>
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:33:14 -0400, Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-
> ONLINE.DE> wrote:
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>> thanks! I thought the PCs where only for playing! Does that not stand
>> for "Play Computer"?
>>
>> Did you know, that you can write very fast programs with something
>> like:
>>
>> //SAS EXEC SAS
>> //SYSIN DD *
>> /* this is a very fast program !! */
>> data a;
>> do i=1 to 123e10;
>> output;
>> end;
>> run;
>> ....
>>
>> This is lightning fast, no matter how mighty the program is (and how
>> many syntax errors it has!!)! Simply do not forget the
>> comment-header! That is also NOT possible on other platforms!
I believe the issue is that /* is an end of stream marker for DD *, so....
it's fast ;-)
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Richard A. DeVenezia
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