The following measurements reflect average performance on a medium sized index and a large one, with CINDEX running on a 2 GHz computer under Windows XP. Performance depends on the amount of memory available to CINDEX, and under many circumstances will be better than the figures given here.

Medium-sized index (13,000 entries)

• Sorting: more than 52,000 records/sec
• Finding any entry: < 0.2 sec
• Searching for text: more than 52,000 records/sec
• Verifying cross-references: more than 30,000 records/sec
• Formatting entries for printing: more than 938 pages/sec

Large index (180,000 entries)

• Sorting: more than 52,000 records/sec
• Finding any entry: < 0.25 sec
• Searching for text: more than 180,000 records/sec
• Verifying cross-references: more than 120,000 records/sec
• Formatting entries for printing: more than 1500 pages/sec