Keys of a custom property array

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/3/13 1:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Jacque-
>
> Sunday, March 3, 2013, 11:20:38 AM, you wrote:
>
>> Assuming speed isn't an issue either way, any idea which would be more
>> memory-efficient?
>
> No idea. We'd have to know how and when the engine handles garbage
> collection. If you see significant speed differences in the different
> methods, then my guess would be the engine making a working copy of
> the array. But whether it marks the copy as not in use after that or
> whether it remains in a cache is a mystery, at least until the FOSS
> release of the engine code.
>

So I loaded in a 900-key array, total size on disk of about 200K. Did this:

on test1
   put the milliseconds into tStart
   repeat 10000
     put the keys of (the cArray of me) into tKeys
   end repeat
   put "test1:" && the milliseconds - tStart
end test1

on test2
   put the milliseconds into tStart
   repeat 10000
     get the cArray of me
     put the keys of it into tKeys
   end repeat
   put "test2:" && the milliseconds - tStart
end test2

Test 1 = 450
Test 2 = 4946

I'm not sure what it means, but getting only the keys is way faster.

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