Revolution back to HyperCard

[Timothy Miller]

Sorry, Richard, I probably don't completely understand your question.

I'd guess you were once a HC user, but maybe not. SS stands for 
searchscript. It was a script that shipped with hyperCard, in the 
home stack. It was invoked by typing SS into the msg box. It searched 
for a string in every script in the top stack.

You asked about "each of these scripts." That's the part of your 
question I didn't understand.

FWIW, I was comparing the speed of Rev's Find stack, searching for a 
string in any script in the top stack versus hyperCard's SearchScript 
doing the same job in a similar stack, in classic mode. But you 
probably understood that part.

Beyond that, I once wrote a test script comparing the milliseconds at 
beginning and end of script, the "find" command in a repeat loop, to 
find every instance of a string in any field of a rather large stack. 
I compared the elapsed time to the time Rev's "Find" stack took to do 
the same job, in the same stack, searching for field text only. I 
reported the whole thing on the list 2 or 3 months ago.

As I recall, the "find" command was 59 times faster than the 
field-text-only find, using Rev's "Find" stack. It was easy to 
calculate because the script took less than two seconds, whereas the 
"Find" stack needed more than a minute to do the same job.

Maybe that's what you were asking about. Not sure.

Cheers,


Tim




>Timothy Miller wrote:
>>Regarding hyperCard's SS (searchScript) I just did a quick test. 
>>You're right about searching a stack's scripts. I got 150 hits in a 
>>few seconds with Rev's find stack. That is indeed faster than SS, 
>>though SS was always fast enough.
>>
>>OTOH, Rev's find stack took 90 seconds to find 43 hits in a 
>>field-text-only search. I previously reported the same search is 59 
>>times faster with a simple script using the "find" command. If I do 
>>a field text search using the "find" command in the msg box, 
>>hitting the return key repeatedly, I can find all 43 hits in less 
>>than ten seconds -- pretty much as fast as I can hit the return key.
>
>What does each of these scripts do?
>
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