Colin Holgate wrote:
For what I was trying, playing a whole tune, I would only need the data
once. Did you try my script? Does it not work fast for you too?
Oh yes, for single-use access a field is plenty fast enough.
As for fields being slower than customproperties, it seems that may not
be true, at least in the case of text. Try this script, after putting
some text in the field (I had just over 7k):
set the customproperties of player 1 to field 1
put the ticks into t
repeat with a = 1 to 1000000
get field 1
end repeat
put the ticks - t into t1
put the ticks into t
repeat with a = 1 to 100000
get the properties of player 1
end repeat
put t1 && the ticks - t
The figures I got were 198 and 325 ticks. If I was arguing that fields
was a bit faster, then 198 to 325 would prove that. But note that the
routine gets the text from the field a million times, and only gets the
customproperties 100,000 times. You can try the customproperties a
million times too, but you'll think your machine has crashed.
So, at least in this case retrieving from a field is about 1,600 times
as fast as retrieving from customproperties, and retrieving once from a
field is taking about 3.3 microseconds. That's close enough to
instantaneous for me.
The test isn't quite right. The script isn't getting a custom property
but rather retrieves a whole list of object properties, which is a
different thing. For the above script, like you, I get 490 and 544 ticks
respectively (my span isn't as wide as yours.) But it is apples and oranges.
A better test is this:
set the myProp of btn 1 to field 1 -- assigns custom property
put the ticks into t
repeat with a = 1 to 1000000
get field 1
end repeat
put the ticks - t into t1
put the ticks into t
repeat with a = 1 to 100000
get the myProp of btn 1
end repeat
put t1 && the ticks - t
This assigns a single custom property called "myProp" to button 1, which
contains the same data as the test field. It then runs the same test
repeat loops, except that it retrieves the actual custom property value
rather than a list of all the button's properties (I used a button, but
a player or any object should yield the same results.)
In this test, I get 490 ticks for field retrieval and 25 ticks for
custom property retrieval.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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