Josh Mellicker wrote: > You all probably know this, but thought I would share our experience > anyway: > > We are working on a project with a 1 millisecond callback loop that > communicates with an external process in a performance-critical > application, and when prototyping, temporarily used some fields on a > card to write and read values from during the loop. > > Then, while buttoning things up, instead of fields, we switched to > reading and writing a custom property. > > Suddenly, everything went sluggish - you had to click on a button > several times to trigger it, you could barely move stack windows, etc. > > It took a while to figure out the culprit, but once we went line by > line from our original prototype script, wee found that going back to > reading and writing to a field made everything work smoothly again! > > Then we tried local, then a global variable... not good... same result > as custom properties. > > So if you are writing an app where performance is critical, Rev reads > and writes to fields super > fast
Josh, What "we know" is actually quite the opposite. The speed order should be local/global/constant - custom property - field, with a very miniscule difference between globals and custom properties (custom props have to be "copied" in memory first) and a very significant difference between any of these and fields, even with *lock screen*. Would you be so kind as to isolate and confirm your results and let us know which Rev and on what platform/OS and provide us with a code example or, better yet, a test stack we can download that demonstrates what you are experiencing, so we can all test your code on different platforms and versions of Rev for ourselves? If you are running a recent release of Rev and what you are saying proves to be so for that release, then you have discovered a major bug. So, it's very important! Thanks! 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
