why are custom properties so fast?

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Sarah,

Did you try also with a hidden field?

cheers
Xavier

On 17.05.2005 08:26:40 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>On 14 May 2005, at 2:52 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Compared to a field nearly anything else will be faster because of the
>> overhead associated with all the other things fields have to do to
>> display text in addition to storing it.
>>
>This topic has come up a few times lately, so I decided it was time to
>do some timing tests :-)
>
>I had a field with 1000 lines of data put into a variable, then put the
>variable back into the field 50 times.
>Then I did the same with a custom property, first getting the test data
>from the field (so it was identical) then setting & getting the
>property repeatedly.
>
>The fastest method was using a custom property with messages locked.
>
>Here are my test results:
>
>using a field  740 ticks
>using a field (with locked screen)     405 ticks
>using a field from sub stack   230 ticks
>using a field from a sub stack & locking the screen    235 ticks
>
>The sub-stack's window was not open for these tests. Opening it made
>the times the same as for a field on the stack running the tests.
>
>To get meaningful data for the custom property tests, I had to do 500
>repeats, instead of just 50!
>But dividing my average results then by 10, I got:
>
>using a custom property        1.9 ticks
>using a custom property with messages locked   0.3 ticks
>
>This is almost 2500 times faster than the field method!!!!!
>
>Removing the scroll bar from the field had almost no effect.
>
>I really didn't expect to come up with such a big difference, but I
>expect it will only change my habits in certain circumstances. I like
>the convenience of being able to see my data when necessary so tend to
>use the closed sub-stack method. However if you have a vast amount of
>data to shuffle around and it needs to be done fast, this is a good
>method to remember.
>
>Cheers,
>Sarah
>
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