Great article though.

Outside of that: define “higher” – it completes more (thus performs better) or it runs longer (thus performs worse)?

Here is the code …
int chapter=0 , len = 26 ;
RandomAccessFile raf = null ;
try {
String tmp = null , line = “” ;
raf = new RandomAccessFile ( “abc.txt”, “rw” ) ;
for ( long i = 0 ; chapter < 6 ; i ++ ) {
tmp = scaleScore(i) ; // it generates a hexa decimal number out of the number.
line = tmp + “,” + line ;
chapter = tmp.length() ;

if (i%len == len-1 ) {
System.out.println(line);
line += “\r\n” ;
raf.writeBytes(line) ;
line = “” ;
} // end of if
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace() ;
} finally {
if ( raf != null ) {
try {
raf.close() ;
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}