Speed of get line from field vs. get line from global

[Sarah]

Hi Jim,

As Jeanne has said, variables are always quicker than fields. If you 
want to do some tests, there is a stack at my web site that runs 
through some useful techniques for speeding up scripts, with timed 
tests for each tip.

Richard Gaskin at FourthWorld, also has a RevBench stack which allows 
you to do timing tests on your scripts.

Cheers,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/


On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 02:53  pm, Jim Witte wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   Is it quicker to pull a line out of a field, or pull it out of a 
> global variable (whose contents are equal to the field)?  On one hand, 
> there is possibly an extra layer of indirection, but on the other 
> hand, Rev loads entire stacks into memory, so a field might just be 
> just like a variable to the engine.
>
> Jim
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