>How is the speed of the lingo function value()? If I really hammer it
>(several hundred calls a frame) will it slow me down a lot?
That's easily tested:
on exitFrame
piString = "3.1415926"
m = the milliseconds
repeat with a = 1 to 10000
end repeat
put the milliseconds - m
m = the milliseconds
repeat with a = 1 to 10000
p = piString
end repeat
put the milliseconds - m
m = the milliseconds
repeat with a = 1 to 10000
p = value(piString)
end repeat
put the milliseconds - m
end
The results on my machine shows that a 10000 repeat takes 26
milliseconds, a transfer of a string to a variable takes 52
milliseconds (26 of which is the repeat loop), and the value repeat
takes about 930 milliseconds (26 of which is the repeat loop).
That ends up being disturbing! It suggests my machine can only do
about 11000 values a second. I suppose that if you wanted a 10 fps
rate for your movie, and needed to do 1100 values per frame, you
would be in trouble.
Are you sure you need to use value every time? Can't you keep the
things that don't change as normal variables, after doing value()
once?
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