Re: LCB Performance

2018-08-10 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
This is not in LCB script, but you posting this reminded me of some code I wrote a long time ago when I needed (for a programming challenge) to write a function that would return primes up to 10^9 or so. That was far too large to do the traditional "build an array of excluded values" sort of thing,

Re: LCB Performance

2018-08-08 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
You might be better off building the primes as a List, then converting to a string at the end. Although the conversion of each number is only done once so it probably doesn't make too much difference (apart from being a bit more LCBy). In general LCB should be written to prefer structure over st