Interesting, and it kinda makes sense. For elements, there's no positioning required like with lines/words/item, just a case of cycling through the keys - which is what "repeat for each line <x> in the keys of <array> does I suppose. Pete
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev <gcanyon+...@gmail.com>wrote: > Certainly correct, but there is not the tremendous performance advantage to > using "for each element in..." For items, lines, and words, using > "item/line/word of myContainer" gets worse the larger the container is. For > character and with arrays, it doesn't. In my quick testing here, there's > just about no performance advantage to doing repeat for each element. > There's about a 4x benefit for using "repeat for each char" over "repeat > with i = 1 to length(myString)" But note that it seems to be 4x regardless > of the string length. That isn't the case with items, lines, and words -- > there, the longer your container, the more you'll suffer. > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > > > Also each element in <array> > > > > Bob > > > > > > On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:34 AM, gcanyon+rev wrote: > > > > > any time you find yourself writing: > > > > > > repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines|words|items of someContainer > > > > > > stop. Rewrite it as: > > > > > > repeat for each line|word|item in someContainer > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
