On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:Here's a tip to get even better performance (sometimes as much as two or three times more): use a field in an unopened window for the translation.
When a field is on the current card, even if hidden, it's initialized with additional things that don't come into play when accessing a field on an unopened card.
I'm a little confused about the unopened part.
Is the unopened card on the stack that you are working on but on "cd 2" or is the unopened cd on a separate stack altogether (a substack for example)? I thought that refering to a fld in an unopened stack would open that stack?
The field can be on any unopened card to get the optimized performance, whether in the same stack or a substack or a separate stack file. I tend to use a substack to hold miscellaneous parts, so that's why I mentioned a stack, but really any of those will do.
Stack files are not "opened" per se when you merely read or write properties or object contents from them, in the sense that they do not appear visually and do not recieve the opening messages (preopenstack, preOpenCard, openStack, openCard, etc.).
But stack files are read from disk and loaded into memory in order to access those properties.
Substacks, on the other hand, are already in memory if the mainstack is in memory since the entire stack file is read at once.
So if the choice is a stack file that's not already open, it will indeed required it to be read into RAM so a substack or second card would be faster.
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