Timothy Miller wrote:
I appreciate your concern and your many good efforts on behalf of the
product we all love.
Thanks, Tim.
I gotta say, every time I see a post from Tim Miller in my In Box I
always look forward to reading it. No matter what the topic, even when
discussing bugs and annoyances, you manage to convey and infectious
upbeat tone. Thanks for being you.
Richard wrote:
With SS, what does the result give you? Does it produce a list of
found objects, or take you to them sequentially?
It gives them to you sequentially, and it opens the script window on the
first hit. After that, you use the "find next" button in the
search-and-replace script window to get subsequent hits. It finds the
desired strings pretty quick, though Rev finds them faster.
Maybe I didn't understand the original post, but if HC's SS is
effectively only finding one instance at a time while Rev's is searching
for all, doesn't it stand to reason that Rev's will always be slower?
Well... I might not have been clear. Searching scripts in Rev is fine.
Better than fine. Searching field text with Rev's "find" stack is the
problem in Rev.
The absence of Atkinson's patented "hint bits" might be part of the
problem with finding field text in Rev, but it's probably not the main
problem.
Agreed. Atkinson's good, but Raney's good too. :) I would expect any
different attributable to the "hint bits" alone to be relatively minor
in terms of overall throughput, esp. given that a Rev stack is entirely
in RAM while HC stacks (larger than 30 or so cards) are paged from disk.
A simple script that finds field text using the "find" command works
fast enough in Rev. It's just Rev's native "find" stack that is way too
slow.
e.g. the following script takes less than 1 second. Okay, it's a clunky
script, but it works. Homie don't script elegant-like.
[removing the buttoned-to-the-collar Pendleton and replacing it with
bling bling over a hooded sweatshirt:] Word, G. If it flies it's fly.
on mouseup
go first
put 1 into countVar1
put 1 into countVar2
repeat until CountVar2 < countVar1 or the shiftkey is down
put the number of this card into countVar1
find string "software"
put the foundchunk & return after theVar
put the number of this card into countVar2
end repeat
go first
put theVar after cd field "temp"
end mouseup
This script takes a second or two, in Rev in the stack I used to test it.
The same task in Rev's "find" stack takes 15 to 20 seconds, searching
the same stack.
Ouch. Hmmm....some day I'd like to go through the Rev Find stack and
see whaddup.
It is offputting, I must say, that the Find stack is so very slow, at
least when it comes to field text. It gets much, much worse with larger
stacks, containing many fields per card, and many cards. In those
stacks, Rev's simple find command still works great.
Sounds like a job for another cool plugin. Anyone got a Find plugin handy?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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