(hint, hint) Thinking ahead, just a bit, array manipulation (specifically in the local scope) has been a major focus for speed increase in V5. Just doing a VERY quick and unscientific test showed about 100% improvement in speed. While I'm sure your mileage will vary, I believe that there will be overall improvements in this area of server performance.
Bob Shubert Tronics James Macfarlane wrote: > > Yup, <@ADDROWS> sucks! > > Recently one of our servers was slowing down to a snail's pace. The CPU > would suddenly jump to 100% for a few minutes. We thought it was bad > code, like an endless loop or something in one of the applications. We > moved the applications, one at a time, to another server and found the > culprit. > > I opened up the application and voila! There were numerous ADDROWS > commands being run to build a list of ad banners on the page -- on every > load! We're going to have to rewrite the thing. > > We've pretty well had to ban use of <@ADDROWS> in the department. I have > no idea why it's so slow -- like it's running it from disk, rather then > from RAM -- it's THAT slow. Hopefuly this is something that's fixed in > V5 (hint, hint). > > - James. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nathan Hitchcock > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:49 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Is Witango slow at doing nasty math? - No, > it's <@ADDROWS> > > You are indeed correct about the <@ADDROWS> tag being the culprit. > Removing it resulted in a previous 12 second calc loop for 204 matches > taking only 1 second! Apperently, Witango can do trigonomic math faster > than the average 11th grader. :) > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
