Geoff, Is 'put "something" BEFORE myVariable' quicker? That way, the engine doesn't have to track to the end each time.
Just an idea. Hugh Senior FLCo From: Geoff Canyon wrote: For fifteen years now I've been telling people over and over, "Sure, you can speed that up dramatically by using 'repeat for each...' instead of 'repeat with i = 1 to the number of...'" And today, something is going horribly wrong with what I've written, and I can't see what. :-/ <I wrote a bunch of stuff here about what I was doing to see if anyone could figure out what was going on> ...okay, I won't bore you all with the details. The tl;dr is that this: put "something" after myVariable is very fast, but gets slower the bigger myVariable becomes. I'm slinging around 100s of MBs, and LC doesn't really like appending strings to a 300mb variable... I have to change to read from my input line by line anyway, and I'll write to my output the same way, and all the variables will be much smaller then. Thanks for listening _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode