The speed of MC

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Another 2 things to consider in your loops:
- set cursor to busy 
  will slow down scripts considerably.

- If you have a "progress" bar, dont change it at every loop,
   do so for each percent change or at every 100th... 
   this will also save major time...

for example
  repeat with x = 1 to 100000
    if char -3 of x is not oldx then
      set cursor to busy
      showstatus
     put char -3 of x into oldx
  end if

So remember to avoid screen updates...

Another consideration is 

if x is in "picasso" or x is in "miro" then...
is slower than
if x is in "picassomiro" then

But to avoid mistakes or substring-matching errors,

if x is among the items of "picasso,miro" then...

Enjoy more speed!
Xavier


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alejandro Tejada [mailto:capellan2000 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 12:59
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: The speed of MC
> 
> 
> Will, your article is very useful. Keep up the good 
> work! I'll like to read about mind numbing fast data
> manipulation (binary, numerical and ascii text)
> using arrays and/or externals (dll's or xcmd and
> xfcn).
> 
> on Tue Apr 1 00:28:01 2003 
> jbv wrote:
> 
> >Do you guys really have to quote the entire original
> >message just to say that you're satisfied with it in 
> >a single line ?
> 
> If I received individual messages, probably I'll
> hit the reply button too, but as I receive the
> Digest this makes me to be more careful. ;)
> 
> By the way, jbv
> Had you continued your work with OpenGL?
> Your work opened a lot of new possibilities for
> this enviroment. 
> Are you going to keep working on it? or 
> Are you opening the code for anyone that wants
> to continue working with OpenGL?
> 
> Thanks for showing us your work!
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> 
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