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Old 12-18-2009
Hello Scottn,
Sure the o/p speaks the truth.
Smilie

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Hello
because deleting every line has some overhead.
No doubts about it. In both the check operation is present in every iteration but in "p" there is one-time printing while "d" there is always deleting causing extra overhead and time.
Smilie
# 16  
Old 12-18-2009
It would expect the two statements to be identical in efficiency, after all in this context deleting means not printing and printing means not deleting.
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