Revolution speed sucks?

[Sarah]

Hi Andy,

I would guess you have run into a factor that is both a strength & 
weakness of xTalks like Revolution: there are ALWAYS multiple ways of 
doing things and some are much slower than others. If it is a one-off 
routine, it really doesn't matter how you go, but in a frequently 
repeated routine, there will almost certainly be ways of changing your 
scripts in order to speed it up.

If you check my web page <http://www.troz.net/rev/> you will find a 
stack listed near the bottom called "Speed.rev". It shows some of the 
common ways to speed up scripts and allows you to test the results on 
your own computer. Richard Gaskin at 
<http://fourthworld.com/rev/index.html> has a stack called RevBench 
that allows you to run timing tests on alternate scripts.

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

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 11:39  am, yoy wrote:

> I ran my stack "OmniLotto" and generated 5000 random powerball games. 
> Then
> it ran. It .took over 30 minutes!!!
>
> I saved the 5000 gamelist and ran it through my PERLotto perl script 
> out to
> "results.txt".
>
> It took only 1 second!!!!!!!
>
> What gives? Are my script routines way out of order? It certainly 
> seems so!
>
> GEEZ......... Day 5 (?)  gonzo.
>
> Andy