properties vs local variable

[Terence Heaford]

Hi Mark,

Have tried your adjustments to my script and it was a little slower than the original.

Could that be because of the split command?

I read the data in from an SQLite file in the return/tab delimited format.

put revDataFromQuery(tab, return, the uDB of this stack, tSQL) into tData

then I pass the data to the group

set thText of group “myTable" of cd “myCard" of stack “myStack" to tData


I wonder if I split the data into an array and pass it directly to the group as an array if that would be quicker because there would be no need for the split to occur in the displayData routine?


All the best

Terry

On 10 Mar 2014, at 14:41, Terence Heaford <t.heaford at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks for your comments, will give it a try.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Terry
> 
> On 10 Mar 2014, at 14:10, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Terry,
>> 
>> Can you use arrays? They aren't necessarily faster, but in this case they might be. Although you have a repeat-for loop, you're still updating a counter to keep track of your second data list. Using arrays just might speed things up, because the engine won't need to count things from the beginning in every loop but can instead read the correct elements from both arrays directly. I suspect this solution will either be slower or just a little fast, but it could be worth a try.
>