Need to filter out items of list

[Dar Scott]

Did you try every so often?  To do that, check for ‘i mod 1000 = 0’ or the like.  There might  be a faster way, but that works.  

Dar


On Jun 3, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com> wrote:

> Yep, just tried it and the counter slowed down the process in a VERY
> noticeable way.  I will have to evaluate if it is worth it or not.
> 
> SKIP
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:17 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/3/2014, 2:02 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
>> 
>>> Given that I have about
>>> 150,000 rows of data to process I am going to need to create some type of
>>> progress bar or counter.
>>> 
>> 
>> Try it first without one, you might be surprised. The "repeat for each"
>> construct is very fast.
>> 
>> One time I added a progress bar out of habit because I had so many lines
>> to process. It took about 15 seconds to go through the whole loop. When I
>> removed the progress bar, the loop completed in two or three seconds. It
>> turned out that updating the progress bar took more time than the entire
>> rest of the loop.
>> 
>> So see if the progress bar is really worth the overhead. If it's just a
>> little slow, consider setting the cursor to a watch instead so the user
>> knows something is happening. That has no overhead. Or if you do need a
>> progress bar, only update it every 10th or 50th iteration or so.
>> 
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> 
>> 
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