Take a look at the new
http://livedoc.4d.com/4D-Language-Reference-15.4/Arrays/Find-in-sorted-array.301-3274895.en.html.
This would change the FIA side of the equation.
Keith - CDI
> On Jul 17, 2017, at 5:46 AM, Peter Jakobsson via 4D_Tech
> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I remember at last year’s summit, JPR was emphasising how objects were far
> more optimised than arrays for doing lookups over large numbers of key value
> pairs.
>
> e.g. we usually do this:
>
> $x:=find in array(myKEYS;”product_code_x”)
>
> if($x>0)
> $0:=myPRICES{$x}
> end if
>
> How do people prefer to do this with objects ? Enumerate the keys in some
> systematic way and then populate the object like this >
>
> For($i;1;$SIZE)
>
> $key:=string($i)
> $value:=myarrayVAL{$i}
> OB SET($object;$key;$value)
>
> End For
>
> Then for retreiving:
>
> $key:=string($1)
>
> $0:=OB Get($object;$key)
>
> …or was JPR suggesting we use object arrays and do some kind of “find” over
> the object arrays ?
>
> Best Regards
>
> Peter
>
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