Constants

[Chipp Walters]

Robert,

Couple of points.

1) Custom Props are only *slightly* slower than globals. In the 
following script:

on mouseUp
   set the a1 of this stack to "hello"
   global g1
   put "hello" into g1
   put the ticks into tticks
   repeat 100000 times
     get the a1 of this stack
   end repeat
   put the ticks - tticks into fld 1
   put the ticks into tticks
   repeat 100000 times
     get g1
   end repeat
   put cr & the ticks - tticks after fld 1
end mouseUp

after 100,000 accesses there is only about 1 second difference on my 
machine (Athlon 2400+), which translates to less than 0.00001 second per 
access. Hardly worth noting.

2) Even if there were a problem, it wouldn't show itself until *way 
past* the limites of the RR CGI. As you may not know, you can't use the 
RR CGI for any real serious trafficed web apps. It's way too much of a 
load on a server.

-Chipp

Robert Brenstein wrote:


> Chipp, custom properties are really slower (as we have seen from posted 
> tests). This is not an issue for desktop applications in general but it 
> is, for example, for web service. Cgi's are good examples of programs 
> that usually have many constants. Same goes for wasting extra cycles to 
> call functions instead or using send or call. On a busy server these add 
> up quite quickly.
> 
> Robert
>