Thanks Alex, I think i did start out the way you mentioned and then got into the objectness of the associative array. That may be my problem...
Thanks for the heads up! Xavier > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Tweedly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: compileIt for revolution? > > MisterX wrote: > > >[ about the need for more speed for some things ....] > >Example: The HotKeyN2O stack stores all properties of all > controls in a > >card when the user opens the card. The props are all in array form > >which cannot be stored into another array (time based array > of object > >changes). So for each object i have to translate array[key]=data to > ><key>data</key>. > > > >This in turn is stored into a time-based array. So if i need > to restore > >the property (any) for any object and at any time, it's ultra easy - > >except that the translation process is so slow after 10 controls > >trasnlated that it's USELESS if i dont write that into a > real-compiled > >external. > > > > > I agree with you about the need for more speed for some > applications (and sorry Dan, but I've seen requests for more > speed a number of times on this list ... sometimes they can > be overcome by creative use of Transcript's features in > unusual ways, but I'm not convinced that's always possible, > nor that it should be necessary to use non-obvious > programming tricks, at the cost of loss of readability and > maintainability, when some improvements in native performance > would do it better) > > But in this example, there may be a better way to organize your (Mr. > X's) data that would be fast enough. 2 possibilities I see > > 1. data[key] contains > time of change, the new value > time of change, the new value > etc. > > then you can directly index the individual property, then > find the appropriate line entry (which you'd keep sorted). If > you needed to, you could then binary search through the lines > for the most recent change before the time desired.. > > 2. the data is in a time-based array, but as a 'combine'd > array-as-list. > So you'd simply > find the array entry based on time put data[theTime] into myProps > split myProps by cr and comma > so the value of a property would be myProp[theProp] > > Not sure which of those would be better - depends on the full > set of operations you need to do. > > -- > Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: > 17/06/2005 > _______________________________________________ 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
