Which option is faster...

[Ali Çehreli]

On 08/05/2013 10:04 AM, jicman wrote:

 > The files are in a network drive, so, that has some slowness already
 > involved because of that.

Which may dominate the running time.

 > The jscript use to take over 8 hours.  The new D program has
 > dropped that to under less than six.

And that is proof that a sizable amount of time is spent during 
computations. :)

 > But, I know that I can probably fine tune the program to make
 > it a few minutes less. :-)

You really should profile where the time is spent. If file I/O is still 
a big issue, there are WAN optimization products that may solve that 
problem amazingly efficiently:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAN_optimization

Ali