Revolution speed sucks?

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Rice wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 10:01  PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> - Unless a lengthy operation also needs to process system messages, use
>> "lock messages" before the operation and "unlock messages" when it's
>> done.
> 
> Richard, the Rev docs mentions "lock messages" but not in the context
> of optimization. I understand that by cutting out getprop/setprop
> calls, things could go faster. Anything else it does? Can you give an
> example of when it wouldn't be safe to use lock messages?

Just those cases where your scripts depend on them, such as going to a card
where the card expects to initialize itself with a preOpenCard handler.

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