The (mission critical) app. that I'm going to be moving from HC to another environment has thousands or cards in it. Actually, it has tens of thousands of cards in it, but I've separated them into multiple stacks because there are logical reasons (time based) to do so.
So, one of the first things I tried in RR was to create a stack with around 50,000 cards, put the id of the card into a field, then randomly pick a card in the stack, change the value in the field, go back to the first card and do a find for the value I was looking for. Searching through thousands of cards for a value in a field, or to pick a string out of a text field that is several lines long is part of what this stack does. Is it fast now? On a Quadra 604? Hell no. However, if we ignore the documentation issues for a minute, the justification for RR would be that instead of rewriting this application in another environment with a better database would be that we can port it to RR, use RR to port it to various platforms, run it more or less intact, and gain a speed improvement in the process. Interestingly to the powers-that-be, if it is possible to port this application to RR, and run the new application on the same machine then we have some extra value that RR is adding. The potential to run the app. on our existing (old) Macs, as well as newer ones, PC's, and our HP-UX workstations all make RR intriguing, especially in light of the fact that the language is a HT-takeoff, which means that if we can get past the documentation issues, we have a tool that we can teach other people to use quickly, provided that they actually know how to type, since TS is verbose as HT was. No, I'm not interested in using RR with an SQL back-end. There is nothing compelling about this arrangement., especially since there are a myriad of other tools that can do the same thing that we already have in house, including 4D, which has the DB engine built-in, and is definitely a more polished, more developed, and more sophisticated tool for such an application. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
