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

[Josh Mellicker]

On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote:

> Josh Mellicker wrote:
> 
>> Oops.
>> 
>> I learned coding from an old guy in an alley, that's why. :-)
>> 
>> When a handler is not event driven, but just looping, monitoring
>> something, and keeps calling itself, what is the proper term?
> 
> Recursion or recursive. This is the same as a tight loop because the handler
> never ends until the recursive calling stops. Hence, without waits *with
> messages* you will have a sluggish GUI.

Just FYI, we were using:

if "monitorExternalProcess" is not in the pendingMessages then send "monitorExternalProcess" to me in 1 milliseconds

That's why I was calling it a "1 millisecond loop".

Since this only calls itself once at a time, it's not recursive, right?


> Also, you could easily hit the
> recursive limit if the condition you are looking for does not occur as you
> expect, and your program will crash.
> 
> Use instead:
> 
> send "<thisHandlerName>" to me in 1 millisecond
> 
> This will solve all of your problems of allowing the GUI to be responsive
> and avoid hitting the recursion limit.
> 
> One thing to be aware of though, in any case, of using *wait... with
> messages* or sending in time. The time factor is not absolute. If, for
> example, a handler that takes 10 milliseconds to execute is triggered then
> there will be 10 milliseconds between executions of your "in-time loops"
> 
> Aloha from Hawaii,
> 
> Jim Bufalini
> 
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