I'll answer the other part of your question. There is no speed
difference between different type of scripts.
When trying to evaluate speed of execution of different methods, the
standard approach is to build a quick test and compare. For your
question, I tried this:
on speedTest
startTime = the milliseconds
repeat with i = 1 to 100000
a = random(100)
b = a * a
end repeat
put "a*a:" && the milliseconds - startTime
startTime = the milliseconds
repeat with i = 1 to 100000
a = random(100)
b = power(a, 2)
end repeat
put "power(a, 2):" && the milliseconds - startTime
end
And got the following result:
-- Welcome to Director --
speedTest()
-- "a*a: 427"
-- "power(a, 2): 642"
Looks like multiplication is faster.
Welcome to Lingoland!
Irv
At 10:24 AM +0200 7/3/01, Chris Aernoudt wrote:
><snip>
>
>Is there a line execution speed difference between movie and stage scripts?
>
>which one is faster - a*a or power (a,2) ?
>(In c it's the latter, but I am not so sure about lingo.)
>
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