FYI: writing to and reading from fields much faster than locals, globals or custom properties

[Josh Mellicker]

> Just add the wait into your repeat loop with vars or custom props and you
> will see it is even faster than fields. ;-)


Will do! Thanks Jim, your message cleared some some things!


On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote:

> Josh Mellicker wrote:
> 
>> What we found was that when writing and reading a custom property, or a
>> variable, in a 1 ms loop, other stack windows became "sluggish" - very
>> difficult to drag by the header bar, very difficult to click buttons
>> on, rollover states sticking.
> 
> Ahhh...Now THIS makes sense. Your repeat loop is so tight that the GUI
> becomes unresponsive. It has nothing to do with the actual speed of
> variables vs. fields. Please add, somewhere in your repeat loop:
> 
> wait 0 milliseconds with messages
> 
>> When we replaced with writing to and reading a text field on a substack
>> (still 1ms), the other windows responded perfectly normally, you could
>> drag and click just like no callback loop was running.
> 
> Yes, because here other handlers are starting and stopping and this gives
> the engine opportunity to intervene. 
> 
>> So I just ASSUMED the field was "faster". Maybe the truth is that
>> custom properties , although faster, somehow interfere with normal
>> mouse-related processes... or maybe what we found was just specific to
>> our app, although I don't see how that could be.
> 
> It's the repeat loop itself without any wait or other handlers being called.
> 
>> Anyway, I will do some more tests as soon as I can. I just wanted to
>> post, in case someone noticed "sluggishness" in an app with a fast
>> callback loop, my advice is, try fields and see if that fixes it - it
>> did for us!
> 
> Just add the wait into your repeat loop with vars or custom props and you
> will see it is even faster than fields. ;-)
> 
> Aloha from Hawaii,
> 
> Jim Bufalini
> 
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