the large file challenge

[Richard Gaskin]

Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote:

> By golly, that would be I think the "conventional wisdom" alright!
> 
> Another myth goes by the wayside?  :-)
> 
> Of course, now the C programmers will probably come out of
> the closet. 

Not if Tom Pittman is around.  I've never seen objective data on the
subject, but he has the opinion that Pascal can and should be optimized to
outperform C for most operations if compilers are designed to do so.

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