On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:36 , Scott Raney wrote:
> snip > HyperCard *is* faster at field get/set and reformatting. It's just the > price you pay for breaking the 32K and color barriers. Fortunately in > most cases MetaCard's on average 5x better performance on everything > else more than makes up for the on average 2x worse performance on > field access. > Regards, > Scott > Thanks Scott. As I said in a separate reply to Rob, my untimed impression was that Rev was faster for ordinary tasks and it has always been sufficient for me to date. The task I tested involved five separate gets per card so a blowout from roughly 2x to 6x is not so amazing, and in any event, the fairly extensive task did finish in under one second. I have from years of HyperTalk programming the habit of using variables for any list or repetitive task anyway, as was eventually proposed by someone for Pierre's original problem - background-maintain an associative array with data copies for access speed. I do similar to this on my contacts stack which has a couple of thousand entries, and to the user the response is fast and the maintenance seamless. cheers David. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
