Hi Jacque, > Jim Bufalini wrote: > > By the > > way, did anyone mention that custom properties are faster than > globals in > > memory? ;-) > > Don't think so, unless something's changed since I asked Scott Raney > about it. Variables will always be faster than retrieving a property, > though the engine is so fast the differences are probably > insignificant.
I just knew I shouldn't have thrown this in. So many other things I could have said. ;-) LOL. Eric was a big fan of custom properties and is the one who did the comparison tests and was the one who emphatically said custom properties were faster and insisted I use custom properties instead of globals whenever I could. I never questioned it. Would you question Eric on something he tested and was insistent on? ;-) And, actually it kind of made sense to me in that vars exist "outside" the stack memory space and, for example, when they are passed, there is a "copy" made unless you use the by reference @pParam form, where custom properties exist "inside" the stack memory space. But this is "loose" thinking and I may be all wet on this. To be fair, we did use both. But alas, he's not here to provide his tests and I have nothing to stand on except his unwavering say-so and insistence. So, I stand to be corrected, if someone knows for a fact that it is wrong. Aloha from Hawaii, Jim Bufalini _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
