OK to pass big data in 'the result'?

[Ken Ray]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:23:10 +0000, Mark Smith wrote:

> If the data is really big (which i guess is relative to how much RAM 
> you have), then you're duplicating it, which could be quite 
> inefficient ie. noticeably slow.

Good point, Mark... although it might be more of an issue with RAM than 
speed. Perhaps better would be to use pass-by-reference variables so 
the data isn't duplicated:

on processRecords
  getRecords tRecordList
  repeat for each line tLine in tRecordList
    -- your code here
  end repeat
end processRecords

on getRecords @pVar
  put the uBigList of stack "XYZ" into pVar
  delete stack "XYZ" -- to remove it from memory
end getRecords


Ken Ray
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