IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Thu Nov 11 14:36:36 EST 2010


Yeah, and Peter's issue was that with standalones, the problem is many orders of magnitude worse. 

Bob


On Nov 11, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> So it seems that the overhead of resolving absolute object references (long form) is much higher than what the engine can do when you're able to hard-wire part of the reference (e.g., "...of card id tID...").
> 
> Historically I've often used long IDs for the convenience of having an absolute object reference without regard to the type, but after seeing these results I can see that there's a benefit to hard-wire the type in script where practical.
> 
> Thanks for bringing this up.  Learn sumpin' new every day. :)




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