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Not really lines of code as such, but in Visual Foxpro, opening a DBF (database table file) on a fileserver, from an application running on that fileserver, ref
by lakkal 6y ago
Not really lines of code as such, but in Visual Foxpro, opening a DBF (database table file) on a fileserver, from an application running on that fileserver, referring to the file using its local path rather than a mapped network drive file path, resulted in a big speedup. (the application typically runs on RDP servers, but can also be run directly on the fileserver, which we do for some heavy-duty processes)
- h2odragon 6y agoMine is in a similar time frame. We had a TV guide where the "box grid" layout was done in WordPerfect 5. Huge ugly set of macros and QB scripts to take ASCII data downloads and munge it all up. Generally took 3 days to run on the fattest 286 in the house. I changed it to generate single page files instead of one large document (we did 14 days of schedule at a time) and it was finishing in less than 6hr. Lost that job for that one, the boss had coded the system.