I've done 101 lists of 101 lists of 101 floats with no problem, other than it took quite a while to write that structure to file.
roymeo At 04:49 PM 11/10/01 +0100, you wrote: >at 09.11.2001 16:01 Uhr, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote: > > > Do you have any information regarding very large lists (2000 props, each > > value another list with maybe 100 integers)? What about speed and memory > > requirements, stability etc? > >Hi Florian, > >do you mean very large lists, or the list you specified (I don't consider >2000 items a very large list). > >A while ago I did a program, where we had a list containing approx. 100.000 >entries, each of which was another list of up to 99 items. > >If you keep your scripts tuned and do some indexed lookups, it is even >relatively fast. (slow is deleteing stuff from the middle of the list, so in >my case it turned out, that flagging an item as 'deleted' was a better >solution)... > >But anyway, if you need lots of searching and sorting, you may be better off >with a database (like Valentina <http://www.paradigmasoft.com/> > > >-- Andy Fuchs >-- silent movie media >-- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >-- http://www.silent-movie-media.com > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] ----- Roy Crisman Senior Macromedia Programmer (716)724-4054 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
