HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution

Colin Holgate coiin at rcn.com
Tue Mar 17 18:16:52 EDT 2009


On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Yes, a lot of advantages. One is speed, another is the ability to  
> store any kind of data including binary. Once you start using custom  
> properties you won't use fields any more for anything but visible  
> text. Accessing a custom property is faster than field access by  
> some magnitude, second only to script-local and global variables.

But I'm finding that a field stores binary data ok it seems, and using  
it is instantaneous. I'm not sure if I would need it to be faster than  
instantaneous.



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