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> From: Evan Harris
> 
> Hi Joe
> 
> I understand that the SETOBJACC command allows a file to be "pinned"
> (cached might be a better term) in memory to avoid multiple disk
accesses.
> Have you ever experimented with what performance benefits might be
> obtained
> using this method instead of the slightly less direct method of
> transforming the file into an array ?

No I haven't, Evan!  My guess is that it will perform better than simple
disk I/O, but not quite as fast as the array load, but you never can
tell.  Maybe when I get back to the benchmarks I can include this as
one.

Joe


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