SC, Rev,and RB speed test

[Geoff Canyon]

This gains you a little speed in Revolution, not sure about SuperCard:

     if offset(stLine,theText)>0 then put stLine & cr after MatchList

instead of using "is in"

regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com

On Apr 14, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Chris Yavelow wrote:

> I'm conducting an informal speed test comparing identical projects in 
> SuperCard (4.1.2), Revolution (2.2), and RealBasic (5.5.1). The 
> projects match 3,000 short phrases against an 81,920 word text. There 
> has already been some feedback and these simple projects are now 
> running even faster. Each one is only a dozen lines of code.
>
> Here are the current statistics:
>
> RealBasic -- 234 ticks
> Revolution -- 1120 ticks
> SuperCard -- 1889 ticks
>
> I've set up a page for downloading the sample projects, if you'd like 
> to try to tweak them to run faster. The object is not the fewest lines 
> of code, it is to create the fastest code (without xfcns or xcmds, 
> etc.). You can inspect the latest version of the code there as well, 
> and see the latest speed results (in ticks).
>
> Here is the URL:  http://www.yav.com/speed.html
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
> Chris Yavelow
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