Geoff, Craig- Thursday, September 12, 2013, 1:30:49 PM, you wrote:
OTOH, this scales linearly and is faster than "before", "after", or "into": on a half-fast dual-core linux box I get 103 ticks for a million iterations. Even with the overhead of the handler call, it looks like this avoids making a copy of the original. on mouseUp local temp local s local accum put "XXX" into temp put the ticks into s repeat 1000000 -- yes, that's a million append temp, accum end repeat put the ticks - s into field 1 answer length(accum) end mouseUp command append pNew, @pString put pNew after pString end append -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode