JC> I participated in a benchmark on the speed of exception handling abo
JC> year ago or so.  Overall, the speed was found to be far less dismal
JC> expected -- while exiting from some level via an exception was
That's good news. Thanks!
So  I  change my statement into: file I/O is far slower than examining
characters more than necessary.
Thomas
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 þ MM 1.0 #0113 þ A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
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