# POSSIBLY SPAM #::Re: why are custom properties so fast?

xbury.cs at clearstream.com xbury.cs at clearstream.com
Tue May 17 03:56:16 EDT 2005


On 17.05.2005 09:35:29 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
>> One issue that seems evident now is that if we store styled text in
>> a field and need to save that to a custom prop, there's 1) loss of
>> data possible (the rev-html converter - or rather stripper), 2) the
>> overhead of saving extra style tags...
>
>True.  If you need to store styled text it's hard to beat the
>performance and storage efficiencies of the native binary style runs
>(i.e. field objects).

Very interesting in terms of TAOO's objects - these are based on cards
or records if you prefer... Accessing them quickly has always been a goal
in terms of TAOO's information at your fingertip... Now that im 
approaching
networking, this is quite a twist to consider if there is any performance 
lag...

Thanks for the insights!

cheers
Xavier


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