Remote Find Questions

[Wouter]

>

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> Perhaps I am incorrect here, in that if the engine maintains an index
> of marked cards, "unmark all cards" can simply empty the index,
> rather than set a property on each card.  But the Transcript
> Dictionary lists "mark" as a card property; so that leads me to
> assume "mark [or unmark] all cards" sets the property on each card.
>
> I'd need to do some timing tests to get beyond idle conjecture; but
> if forced to bet, my money is on mark/unmark all cards touching every
> card in a stack.
> -- 
>
> Rob Cozens
> CCW, Serendipity Software Company
> http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm
>

Hi Rob,

Just ran a little test.
Made a stack with 10000 cards with 1 field (fld 1) on each.
Put some text on random cards.
Put some extra fields (fld 2) on some of the cards

on mousup
put the long secs into zap  -- ;-)
mark cards where field 1 contains <sometext>
put the long secs - zap
end mouseup

results  around   10.420514

mark cards where field 2 contains <sometext>

results  around   0.072319
(on tibook 400 mhz )

Seems to me that the mark/unmark command doesn't touch
every card in the stack.
Can we force a bet?  :-))

Greetings,
WA