FYI: writing to and reading from fields much faster than locals, globals or custom properties

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Feb 18 14:10:08 EST 2010


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Dr. Raney once told me speed was in this order:
> 
> global variables
> local variables
> custom properties
> fields

I should amend that. I'm not positive about the order of the first two. 
I might have them reversed. What I am sure about is that variables are 
faster than properties, which are faster than fields.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



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