On 11/14/04 9:20 AM, "Frank Leahy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a preferences file that is fairly large (30K+), and it's created > on-the-fly using "append string" functions, e.g. > put "this data and that data..." after thePrefs > put "some more data..." after thePrefs > put "even more data..." after thePrefs > > This is getting slower than I'd like, and it appears that the slowdown > is because the append functions are getting slow. I'm guessing that > RunRev is reallocating memory on each append, then copying the existing > string and the appended string into the newly allocated memory. And > because I have lots of little appends this really slows things down > (and no, there's no way to make the appends longer and therefore > fewer...). Frank, I don't know if this would help, but is there a way in your code that you can declare a temporary empty variable, and then do a handful of small appends to that var to make it a "longer" variable that you can then append to the main var? That way, the main var only gets longer appends added to it, and each of those is made up of a handful of smaller appends so it doesn't take long to create. > If not, I'll have to go to a "write to temp file and then re-read from > temp file" type of solution (because writing and reading to a temp file > appears to be significantly faster than doing lots of little appends). Really? I'm surprised that read/write to a file is actually faster? Good to know... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
