From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 12:25:09 AM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > My idea of efficiency is compiled C code, in real   
   > > memory, running at native speed, and with all   
   > > its data cached, so quibbling about I/O is a   
   > > non-issue.   
      
   > Then you will never have efficiency.   
   >   
   > There is no way for a program to know, ahead of time,   
   > what data it needs and doesn't. Reading a million record   
   > dataset for the 999,999th record just so it can be in "cache"   
   > is not efficient.   
      
   I do not deal with million-record datasets. I deal with   
   C code. Editing C code, compiling C code, running C   
   code (with small amounts of data).   
      
   All of my C code and my C compiler are trivially small   
   and easily cached in 32 MiB, nevermind the 4 GiB I'm   
   willing to throw at it if required (and enabled with   
   AM32 vs AM31 vs AM24).   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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