How many addrows is considered numerous?  I've used it before many times and
have never had the performance problem you describe.  Perhaps there is a
threshold where the performance becomes poor.

Mike

James Macfarlane wrote:

> Yup, <@ADDROWS> sucks!
>
> Recently one of our servers was slowing down to a snail's pace. The CPU
> would suddenly jump to 100% for a few minutes. We thought it was bad
> code, like an endless loop or something in one of the applications. We
> moved the applications, one at a time, to another server and found the
> culprit.
>
> I opened up the application and voila! There were numerous ADDROWS
> commands being run to build a list of ad banners on the page -- on every
> load! We're going to have to rewrite the thing.
>
> We've pretty well had to ban use of <@ADDROWS> in the department. I have
> no idea why it's so slow -- like it's running it from disk, rather then
> from RAM -- it's THAT slow. Hopefuly this is something that's fixed in
> V5 (hint, hint).
>
> - James.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nathan Hitchcock
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:49 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
> Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Is Witango slow at doing nasty math? - No,
> it's <@ADDROWS>
>
> You are indeed correct about the <@ADDROWS> tag being the culprit.
> Removing it resulted in a previous 12 second calc loop for 204 matches
> taking only 1 second!  Apperently, Witango can do trigonomic math faster
> than the average 11th grader. :)
>
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