Speed optimization

[Alex Tweedly]

kee nethery wrote:

> My favorite way to speed things up is to do something like
>
> put 0 into x
>
> function newTime oldTime,addedSec
>       if x mod 100 = 0 then
>
>          -- stuff from smart people in previous posts
>
>       end if
>       add 1 to x
> end newTime
>
> Do you really need to change that variable every millisecond or would  
> once every so often be more than adequate? I adjust the factor (in  
> the example 100) so that the display skips a second every so often.

It wasn't a variable he was changing - it's data from a file. Original 
post said:

>Problem is, it seems slow (I need to do this call
>about 150,000 times each file I process). 
>
(sounds like processing a log file or something similar).

So although your advice is good general advice - it doesn't apply in 
this case :-)

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