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Thomas Mercer-Hursh
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There are many such comparisons possible between ABL and some other language. String operations in particular come to mind. And yet, by and large ABL performs just fine compared to these other languages. In part, some of that comes from having more complex operations like reading and writing the disk built in and highly optimized and in part it comes from comparing things which don't happen or don't matter. E.g., what exactly is the context in which one is generating 10,000 or 1 million GUIDs? Chances are, if it ever happens it is in the context of creating new records in the database ... and so, the overhead of creating a GUID is a meaningless iota in the midst of the processing to obtain and validate the data which is going into the record and writing the record to disk.
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