HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Mar 17 18:41:56 EDT 2009


Colin Holgate wrote:
> 
> 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.

It isn't really. Fields are probably the most inefficient place to store 
data that you need to access a lot. Another advantage of custom 
properties is that you don't have to hide a data-storage object and 
script around it.

Richard Gaskin wrote my favorite explanation about it:

<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user/111226>

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