Looking for inspiration

[Mark Smith]

One way to cut down the amount of overhead of updating progress bars  
and the like, is to only update them every so often:

repeat for each line L in some BigList
   add 1 to c
   if c mod 50 = 0 then set the thumbPos of sb "progressBar" to c

Of course, you're adding the overhead of maintaining a counter, and  
doing 1 modulo division for each iteration, but this is insignificant  
compared to updating a progress bar, and you can use whatever number  
of iterations produces the best balance of visual feedback/efficiency  
for your needs.

Best,

Mark



On 19 Dec 2007, at 16:29, Beynon, Rob wrote:

> I'm writing tools that bash their way through thousands of lines of  
> input text, and do some processing.
>
> I'd like to have a progress indicator displayed (and indeed, live  
> the tm dials, in particular, that I just got for Xmas!).
>
>
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> But, how does one write a routine to indicate progress without  
> imposing a penalty at each iteration? If I include the "line":
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> Display the progress bar for number of lines processed/ total  
> number of lines
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> Than this has as many iterations as lines.
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> I guess, if there has to be something in the main loop it should be  
> fast, and then send a message to an externally progress display  
> routine?
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> Is there a sneaky/subtle way around this?
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> Thoughts appreciated
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