Sarah,

This is incredible...it took 1 second !!

Now I must really play around with "repeat for each" since I am working with large data sets.

thank you very much

Glen

On Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at 04:36 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

Hi Glen,

I reckon you should be able to process all 10000 lines in one go, without to much delay.
Re-writing your fireBig handler to use "repeat for each" which is MUCH faster than "repeat with":


on firebig
  put long time into fld sb1
  put line 1 to 10000 of fld "out" into fbtemp1
  put empty into sbTime1
  repeat for each line L in fbTemp1
    get word 1 to 2 of L
    convert it to seconds
    put it & cr after sbtime1
  end repeat
  put long time into fld eb1
end firebig

I would be interested to see how long this takes.

Cheers,
Sarah
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On 24 Mar 2004, at 6:37 am, Glen Bojsza wrote:

I tried the following experiment.

I have a field with 10000 lines and I want to convert the first word to seconds

Method 1

Break the 10000 lines into 5 separate loops. The start time and end time was recorded for each loop - ie when a loop completed the next loop started.

TIME TO PROCESS 21 seconds

Method 2 is the same script but with fire# commented out (firebig is the only loop)

TIME TO PROCESS 1 minute 27 seconds

This is a substantial difference...can anyone give me some pointers on how I should optimize repeat loops. I thought that doing the one big loop should be as fast as the multiple loops?

on mouseUp
fireUpdate
end mouseUp

on fireUpdate
  fire1
  fire2
  fire3
  fire4
  fire5
  --firebig
end fireUpdate

on fire1
  put long time into fld s1
  put line 1 to 2000 of fld "out" into ftemp1
  repeat with l = 1 to 2000
  get  word 1 of line l of ftemp1 && word 2 of line l of ftemp1
    convert it to seconds
    put it & cr after stime1
end repeat
put long time into fld e1
end fire1

snip
on firebig
  put long time into fld sb1
  put line 1 to 10000 of fld "out" into fbtemp1
  repeat with l = 1 to 10000
  get  word 1 of line l of ftemp1 && word 2 of line l of fbtemp1
    convert it to seconds
    put it & cr after sbtime1
end repeat
put long time into fld eb1
end firebig

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