Subj : Re: next question.
To : Chris Hoppman
From : Scott Adams
Date : Mon Jan 12 2004 12:16 am
-=> Quoting Chris Hoppman to Scott Adams <=-
SA> In modern machines with gighz machines and such it
SA> really isn't that much unless your doing a data hog
SA> like a Database program. But a rule of thumb basically
SA> anything is better with pointers. The main benefit is
SA> data storage of course but speed helps.
SA> So it depends on how many records you might be dealing with.
SA> A few hundred who cares. A million then yeah use pointers. :)
CH> How, about 2-10 records at a time. The program is okay when one user
CH> is on the bbs, but when a second or third user is on the bbs then it
CH> is all hell tring to type something in the telnet client. The keys
CH> seem like they stick. (Wait a few seconds, before they get printted to
CH> the screen).
IF only 2-10 then nah pointers not mandatory. But if your running
say a million records and USE 2-10 at a time then reding with
pointers might help.
CH> The ansi screens scrolls about 3 lines then pauses then scrolls two
CH> more then pauses then scrolls 5 more (not in that order, but in
CH> general it does that). When two users are online. It sucks and I am
CH> looking to resolve the issue of cpu usage then maybe speed up the
CH> program.
