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Thank you for sharing these timings and for writing the faster code. Both are instructive.

Would the operation run even faster if coded in C?

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Re^6: Removing the first record in a file containing fixed records
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 21, 2008 at 07:04 UTC
    Would the operation run even faster if coded in C?

    Marginally. Maybe. A straight forward conversion of the above code to C ran in 4 seconds one time and 2 the next--probably because the file was still in the system cache. But the timing was only to the nearest second.

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