Right, and accessing a field is one of the most expensive operations in LC.
Maybe Richard will post his analogy to the maintenance worker again. I
found it both amusing and informative.
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On December 1, 2018 8:18:52 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
So the first form populates the field only once....since its a single
command so no other states of the field will exist.
Makes perfect sense.
Thanks
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 7:45 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Tom Glod wrote:
> Can someone explain the seemingly extraordinary performance
> improvement in using apparently its "split second" vs "over a minute"
>
> set the hidden of line 1 to - 1 of field 1 to false
>
> vs.
>
> repeat with i = 1 the number of lines of fld 1
> set the hidden of line i of fld 1 to false
> end repeat
>
> it doesn't seem like the loop would be the bottleneck here, but rather
> the work on the field itself....but obviously, I know nothing about
> this engine
Think about all the steps a computer needs to take to render text in a
field.
Multiply that by the number of lines...
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Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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