Re: why are custom properties so fast? RAM?

2005-05-17 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using a custom property 1.9 ticks using a custom property with messages locked 0.3 ticks This is almost 2500 times faster than the field method! so is the custom property in RAM and the field contents on the hard drive? [EMAIL

Re: why are custom properties so fast? RAM?

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Erik Hansen wrote: --- Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using a custom property 1.9 ticks using a custom property with messages locked 0.3 ticks This is almost 2500 times faster than the field method! so is the custom property in RAM and the field contents on the hard drive? When a

Re: why are custom properties so fast? RAM?

2005-05-17 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When a stack is opened, the whole thing is in RAM, field properties and all. The difference is the overhead associated with each storage mechanism: While fields appear to us to be simple to work with, that's all smoke and mirrors -- under