Most Effecient way to repeat a handler/function - Found word(s) list error in the Text body

[Bob Sneidar]

If you are talking about recursion, that is having a function call itself, be aware that there is a limit to recursion. But I don’t think that is what you are asking. 

The repeat structure is pretty damned efficient already. For repeats of a fixed number where your script doesn’t need the count, use repeat for x. If the script needs to know what the count is, repeat with x=y to z. If you need to repeat until a condition is true, repeat until condition is true (or the converse repeat while condition is not true). 

Even slicker is the repeat for each chunk x in y as in repeat for each item theTeam in theNBATeams. BEWARE with this one however. you MUST NOT modify the contents of theNBATeams in your repeat loop! This is because Livecode “maps” the memory holding theNBATeams by each chunk, and altering what is in that memory wreaks holy havoc with your scripts. Why use it you say? Because it’s really efficient, perhaps the most efficient of all the repeat structures. 

For small tasks though, your users will not even be able to blink before 100,000 simple repeats are executed. I ran a 100,000 count loop with nothing in the repeat loop to do and it took 1 tick. ONE TICK! The repeat loop is NOT what slows things down! So it’s really a matter of what suits the problem you are trying to solve. 

Bob


On Feb 9, 2014, at 14:15 , Nakia Brewer <Nakia.Brewer at westrac.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
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> What is the best way to keep repeating a handler/function.
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> In the past I have placed a 'repeat until local variable = false' in the handler to keep it repeating but I don't imagine this is the most efficient way.
> Am I better off using the send option or dispatch ?
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> Any opinions would be appreciated.
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