Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote:
if literal
names are not quoted, the engine takes twice as long to execute the
statement because of the additional lookup.
Jacque, is this really true?
I confess I made up the "twice as long" part, I don't really have any
hard numbers on the increase. But as I understand it, it takes longer.
Though with Rev being as fast as it is, the delay is probably not very
noticeable most of the time.
On a tangent, another thing that takes longer is the omission of "the"
when refering to properties; again, just because the engine has to do a
second level of interpretation. You see a lot of this:
set cursor to none
set name of field 1 to "whatever"
Not a good habit, though the engine has no problem with it. I believe it
also takes slightly longer to use abbreviations ("fld", "cd", etc)
because that also requires a second-level lookup, but I for one refuse
to give those up.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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