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Is SEEK faster than GOTO?
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08/06/2004 12:33:14
Emmanuel Huybrechts
Technimeca International Corp.
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00910871
Message ID:
00911233
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That goes against the teachings of my Jedi Master, Obe One Kenobe!:-) Thanks for the post - I'll cjeck it out!


>Never rely on your feelings, use the profiler or at least do some tests to compare the two.
>
>>My feelings are similar: That SEEK is faster. I noticed the difference in lag times in DOS (CDX/MDX) xbase platforms when 386's reigned king.
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>>Hi Terry,
>>>
>>>I know that strange but seek is faster than go to. I read an article about that years ago and tested.
>>>
>>>Maybe go to command force to a real physical record move and seek don't do it until data read (I know indexseek don't say it :), but maybe it do same indexseek until read record ).
Imagination is more important than knowledge
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