Rev Internal Data Structures

[Richard Gaskin]

Sarah Reichelt wrote:
> Fields in a data stack that is hidden have almost the same access time
> as custom properties

It seems dependent on what you're doing.  Reads are faster with fields, 
but writes much slower:

on mouseUp
   put 1000 into n
   --
   put the millisecs into t
   repeat n
     put "hello world" into fld 1
     get word 2 of fld 1
   end repeat
   put the millisecs - t into t1
   --
   put the millisecs into t
   repeat n
     set the uTest of this cd to "hello world"
     get word 2 of the uTest of this cd
   end repeat
   put the millisecs - t into t2
   --
   put t1 && t2
end mouseUp


I've played with variants of the above, at times commenting out the 
writes and at other times the reads, and in both cases the results 
mystify me....

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