Need for Speed (postscript)

[Mark Smith]

Stephen, for what it's worth, my own experience (when I was doing my  
SHA1 function) is that it's marginally quicker to use literals than  
it is to use constants. I do mean marginally, though it was enough to  
shave a few more milliseconds off the execution time of the SHA1  
function...


Best,

Mark

On 15 Jul 2007, at 21:50, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> another thing -- the last line in the loop
>
> put "====================" & return after outputData
>
> perhaps that could be a constant, defined at the top of the script
>
>
> constant kBarDisplay = "===================="
>
> then use this in the loop
> put kBarDisplay & return after outputData
>
> this one might have negligible difference, but I haven't tested this.