Tom, Go to the Rbase web site and in the Support section under From the Edge search for "gaining speed with programming". This may help answer some or all of your questions.
Good luck, Paul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Frederick Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 2:39 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Expressions, Spaces, and Performance This seems like a pretty elementary question but does the structure of how an expression is set up have any significant effect on performance? When writing expressions, I tend to write out all words and align/box items in a consistent format that makes it easy for others to read as in the first example below. That includes me 6 months later. We are doing more wireless connections and some concern has popped up that the extra spaces/letters would effect performance speed as simply more info to process. As time has gone by my EEPs have gone from simple 20 liners to over some with well over 300 lines as we put more controls in. Have not seen any difference on the LAN, but the wireless field laptops are not the fastest machines. Using latest V8 and doing a complete jump to v9 in the next week. SELECT + Item1, Item2, ThirdThing, NumberFour + INTO + aItem1 INDICATOR a1, + aItem2 INDICATOR a2, + aThirdThing INDICATOR a3, + aNumberFour INDICATOR a4 FROM Z_MHA_Summary WHERE ZID = (.vZID) Compared to SEL Item1, Item2, ThirdThing, NumberFour INTO + aItem1 IND a1, + aItem2 IND a2, + aThirdThing IND a3, + aNumberFour IND a4 FROM Z_MHA_Summary WHERE ZID = (.vZID) Tom Frederick Jacksonville, IL
