why are custom properties so fast? RAM?

[Erik Hansen]

--- Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> When a stack is opened, the whole thing is in
> RAM, field properties and all.
> 
> The difference is the overhead associated with
> each storage mechanism:
> 
> While fields appear to us to be simple to work
> with, that's all smoke
> and mirrors -- under the hood the engine's
> doing a lot of work setting
> up storage for style runs, calulating visual
> line breaks, interacting
> with the OS font routines, etc.
> 
> In contrast, all a property does is hold the
> data.

thanks, this explains it.

Erik Hansen

erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org


		
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