ASCII & Binary sort (was: sort question )

[Bruce G. Barnett]

In article <1987 at csuna.csun.edu>, abcscnge at csuna (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl) writes:
>
>Speed/size aren't that bad, IMHO.  We wrote a test driver for an embedded
>system.  That used ASCII files, speed/size was OK.

What about files that approach database sizes ( 100,000+ records)?
It seems to me that when you are looking for all records where field
6 is between 9900 and 10700, converting an ASCII string into an int
must be more expensive in CPU time than just storing the data in int form.

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