Globals and script locals have the fastest access. Custom props are pretty fast, but still slower than variables. Stack-based data stored in a separate stack is slower yet
it seems like there is a choice between power, speed, and pathing elegance being made here, and for the nature of many of my applications, I need all three.
Jacque, Troy, et al:
Stack-based storage will be slower than variable access; but perhaps it makes up for this in power & elegance.
I have not done timing tests to the millisecond, but using a timer I find the SDB can select & retrieve one record out of a 43,043-record database by key value in < one second on a G4 iMac.
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