Re: Very fast Revolution commands and functions?

2005-02-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
Ken Ray wrote: On 2/8/05 1:31 PM, "Lynch, Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is switch faster than if-then? Is add 1 to X faster than put X+1 into X? Jonathan, you should read up on the Scripting Tricks called "Increasing Script Performance" by Wil Djikstra that I have posted on my site..

Re: Very fast Revolution commands and functions?

2005-02-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Feb 8, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: On Feb 8, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Is add 1 to X faster than put X+1 into X? Yes. Over twice as fast. And both are faster on 2.5 than 2.2. Well, on my mac. There is a subtle and exotic difference in meaning. Dar --

RE: Very fast Revolution commands and functions?

2005-02-08 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
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Re: Very fast Revolution commands and functions?

2005-02-08 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/8/05 1:31 PM, "Lynch, Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is switch faster than if-then? > Is add 1 to X faster than put X+1 into X? Jonathan, you should read up on the Scripting Tricks called "Increasing Script Performance" by Wil Djikstra that I have posted on my site... they go into th

Re: Very fast Revolution commands and functions?

2005-02-08 Thread Phil Davis
Richard is too modest (or maybe just old and forgetful!) - he should have mentioned '4W RevBench', his little gizmo that lets you compare execution speeds of different coding approaches that produce the same outcome. Starting in the Rev menus and continuing in the stacks that will appear, sele

Re: Very fast Revolution commands and functions?

2005-02-08 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 8, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Is add 1 to X faster than put X+1 into X? Yes. - --- Frank D. Engel, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual $ true | cat

RE: Very fast Revolution commands and functions?

2005-02-08 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Thanks Richard - it isn't really for a specific project, it is just for learning good programming practices. I was just thinking I would study up on those techniques that are best, for situations where processing lots of information is required. We have had a number of discussions about how to do

Re: Very fast Revolution commands and functions?

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Hello everyone, What are the processes in Revolution that have been optimized to be very fast? The following two examples are the ones that come to mind, but I figure there must be quite a few of them. - Match Text - Repeat for each loop MatchText is not necessarily fast, dep

Very fast Revolution commands and functions?

2005-02-08 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Hello everyone, What are the processes in Revolution that have been optimized to be very fast? The following two examples are the ones that come to mind, but I figure there must be quite a few of them. - Match Text - Repeat for each loop Thanks, Jonathan ___