custom property searching speed question

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Mar 2 18:52:13 EST 2005


Alex Tweedly wrote:
>> Have you tried looping through lines in a combined string? If your 
>> results are like mine you'll shave another 20% off.
>>
> Only saves 4% for me. (And the "combine" took over a second - 500% of 
> the summation cost !)

Of course. In my case I had the option of storing either as a chunk or 
an array so my measurements included only the actual lookup time, not 
any of the setup.

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