ARTICLE
Cost of Index Maintenance when Inserting into and Deleting from
Internal Tables
Any operations that insert into, or delete from, internal tables come
at a certain cost because the index has to be updated. The amount of
time needed for this increases proportionally according to the number
of lines that remain after the insert or delete position. Any changes
you make at the beginning of the table thus require more runtime than
changes at the end of the table.
The line width of the table is of no consequence in this context.
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