Okay, I think I'm brain damaged -- nope, I figured it out

[Geoff Canyon]

Can you post your code? I didn't see that. Here's mine for the two tests I
did, and a simple put after looks 50% faster (90mb vs. 60mb):

Variable by reference:

60000000

on mouseUp
   put 10 + the long seconds into T
   repeat
      repeat 100000
         append "xxxxxxxxxx", R
      end repeat
      if the long seconds > T then exit repeat
   end repeat
   put length(R) & cr & cr & the script of me
end mouseUp


command append pNew, @pString
    put pNew after pString
end append




Simple put after:

90000000

on mouseUp
   put 10 + the long seconds into T
   repeat
      repeat 100000
         put "xxxxxxxxxx" after R
      end repeat
      if the long seconds > T then exit repeat
   end repeat
   put length(R) & cr & cr & the script of me
end mouseUp



On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Geoff-
>
> Friday, September 13, 2013, 11:01:56 PM, you wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure put after does not make a copy. It does have to find the
> > end of the string in order to append to it. I did timings, I'll post the
> > results in a minute...
>
> Nonetheless, the solution I posted using a variable by reference is
> two orders of magnitude faster by my experiments.
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
>
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