Yah, when I started programming, I used to count the clock cycles of instructions in C to see which method to use to do things :) I guess I have never gotten out of that mentality, which is why it offends my sensibilities to do things just because it is the easy way. I thought, though, that maybe that UD might do some magic in the way it handles things like nested calls to VF's.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen E. Elwood Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:52 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Virtual fields calling Virtual fields Hey John, Actually, it makes perfect sense. In the old days, where you had 20 dumb terminals attached to a system that barely equaled the processing power of a 10 MHz PC-AT, you could really hammer the system by having embedded calls in dict items. The old days were the early 90's. 15 years later, the systems are so incredibly fast that you can get away with doing just about anything no matter how complex.... However, the methodology remains the same. Try it, and if it's not too slow to live with, then it's fine. If it's slower than molasses on a cold winter morning AND you're in a hurry, then it's time to try a different approach. If your willing to wait, then again, it's fine. I recently had a client that wanted a report that pulled from an enormous transactional based file. I offered to create an index to improve performance, but they declined saying that there were currently using Excel and manual data entry to create the same report at the end of the month, and that having it run in 15 minutes instead of 10 seconds was acceptable. So I just wrote it with a simple SELECT and it takes 15 minutes and they're happy as heck that it takes 15 minutes instead of the two days it used to take them to do it in Excel. Allen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aherne, John Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 11:37 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Virtual fields calling Virtual fields Hi All, Is it a bad thing when a virtual field references a virtual field in another file, which calles a sub-routine to retrieve values from yet another file? Does that even make sense? If not, how far could one take that before things do get bad? Thanks, John ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
