Jacque,
those two code snippets do slightly different things - and I don't think
either of them is doing exactly what's intended; I think the intent is
to delete stack(s) called (exactly) "test".
The first one will (wrongly) catch a stack called "testabc" or "abctest"
- and then will fail on deleting 'test'.
The second one also catches "testabc" - but in this case deletes it
unintentionally.
Alternatively, we could go straight to the point
put the milliseconds into tStart
repeat forever
try
delete stack "test"
catch tmp
exit repeat
end
end repeat
answer the milliseconds - tStart
again, the timings are overlapping - the variation between different
runs far outweighs the difference between the methods. I think that
could be different if there many other mainstacks in play, but I don't
see that it would be significant in any realistic case.
So pick the one that seems most easily read and understood :-)
Alex.
On 05/04/2023 20:27, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
I just created four same-named stacks and ran my suggested handler
wrapped with timer commands. All four were deleted in 67 milliseconds.
LC 10.0.0 DP 4.
put the milliseconds into tStart
repeat while "test" is in the mainstacks
delete stack "test"
end repeat
answer the milliseconds - tStart
Ralph's idea to use filter is good too but slightly slower, at (a
fairly insignificant) 79 milliseconds:
put the milliseconds into tStart
filter the mainstacks with "test*" into tStacks
repeat for each line l in tStacks
delete stack l
end repeat
answer the milliseconds - tStart
On 4/5/23 10:15 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
Whoa! No I'm not! There's over 300 mainstacks just from Livecode!
Bob S
On Apr 5, 2023, at 08:07, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Oooh Pro Tip #276 from Jacque. I'm gonna use that one.
Bob S
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