When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Apr 14 21:33:01 EDT 2006


Mark Smith wrote:
 > I just had a doh! moment  in response to your <the short name of
 > pStackLongID>, but then in order to see how much faster the engine  does
 > this, I tested it the same way I tested my first tries (which  was
 > actually with 10000 iterations, not 1000), and
 >
 > function stackIsOpen pLongID
 >   return (the short name of pLongID is among the lines of the 
openstacks)
 > end stackIsOpen
 >
 > takes nearly 600 ms!

Interesting. I never time these things enough. It looks like if a script 
needs to make repeated calls to the function, then your way would be 
preferable because of the speed increase.

It's been an interesting experiment, I like when the list does these things.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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