Chunks vs Arrays - surprising benchmarking results

[Trevor DeVore]

On Aug 5, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Any thoughts on how I might optimize the array functions?  Did I  
> just overlook something obvious which would make them run faster?

Richard,

The main slowdown in your test for GetFromMainArray seems to be in  
transferring the data from the custom property to tDataA. This is  
consistent with my findings when implementing persistent data storage  
in the data grid.

I changed the code a bit so that the field contents and uData custom  
prop array were put into script locals outside of the timers. Here is  
what I got:

GetFromList: 30
GetFromSubArray: 244
GetFromMainArray: 27
All results the same?: true

So if your data is already in a script local then arrays seem to be  
faster.

Regards,

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Trevor DeVore
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