Which is faster...

[Craig Newman]

Typo in the last post. BOTH had 100,000 elements or lines.

Craig

> On Dec 14, 2023, at 5:25 PM, Craig Newman <craig at starfirelighting.com> wrote:
> 
> Anything to distract me from my day job.
> 
> An array with 100,000 elements and a variable with 100,00 lines take the same time to place into a field.
> 
> The only time that took a while was building them. Each took 10 milliseconds.
> 
> Craig
> 
>> On Dec 14, 2023, at 4:55 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Bob,
>> 
>> Thank you. I could script a timing test but sometime just asking the list or forums is easier. You asnwered well before I would have had the time to write a basic test script. Thanks!
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/14/2023 4:45 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>>> I think the confusion comes from thinking so much of a stack as an object that has substance, when really all the properties are places in memory just like a memory variable is. I asked this some years back and the answer I got was that there is no appreciable difference.
>>> 
>>> One could always devise a test though…
>>> 
>>> Bob S
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 14, 2023, at 1:22 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Which is faster or more efficient (from an engine performance perspective)?
>>> 
>>> To retrieve an array from a property?
>>> As in:
>>> command someHandler -- in an objects script
>>>  get the cMyArray from me -- cMyArray is some multi-dimensional array
>>>  ...
>>> end someHandler
>>> 
>>> OR
>>> 
>>> To retrieve an array from a script local variable?
>>> As in:
>>> local sMyArray -- script local variable in some objects script
>>> 
>>> command someHandler -- in an objects script
>>>  get sMyArray
>>>  ...
>>> end someHandler
>>> 
>>> Anyone know?
>>> 
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