HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution

[Bob Sneidar]

The issue I think was PUTTING something into a field, not GETTING the  
contents of a field.

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:

>
> On Mar 17, 2009, at 6:41 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>>
>> It isn't really. Fields are probably the most inefficient place to
>> store data that you need to access a lot.
>
>
>
> For what I was trying, playing a whole tune, I would only need the
> data once. Did you try my script? Does it not work fast for you too?
>
> As for fields being slower than customproperties, it seems that may
> not be true, at least in the case of text. Try this script, after
> putting some text in the field (I had just over 7k):
>
> set the customproperties of player 1 to field 1
> put the ticks into t
> repeat with a = 1 to 1000000
> get field 1
> end repeat
> put the ticks - t into t1
> put the ticks into t
> repeat with a = 1 to 100000
> get the properties of player 1
> end repeat
> put t1 && the ticks - t
>
> The figures I got were 198 and 325 ticks. If I was arguing that fields
> was a bit faster, then 198 to 325 would prove that. But note that the
> routine gets the text from the field a million times, and only gets
> the customproperties 100,000 times. You can try the customproperties a
> million times too, but you'll think your machine has crashed.
>
> So, at least in this case retrieving from a field is about 1,600 times
> as fast as retrieving from customproperties, and retrieving once from
> a field is taking about 3.3 microseconds. That's close enough to
> instantaneous for me.
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