Just curious.. How does this compare? local scount on mouseUp put the number of lines in field 1 + 1 into scount sort lines of field 1 by getCount() end mouseUp
function getCount subtract 1 from sCount return sCount end getCount On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 2:52 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > Just tinkering around on a lazy Sunday, and I thought I'd come up with a > neat way to reverse a list without using the traditional clunky method: > > function reverseSort pList > repeat for each line l in pList > put l & cr before tList > end repeat > return tList > end reverseSort > > One of the best things I learned from a past LC converence came from Jerry > Daniels who said "let the engine do it." It's almost always faster and more > efficient. With that in mind I wrote this: > > local sNum > > function reverseText pList > put the number of lines in pList into sNum > sort lines of pList numeric by reverseSort(each) > return pList > end reverseText > > function reverseSort pTxt > subtract 1 from sNum > return sNum && pTxt > end reverseSort > > Works great and I was proud. Then I did some timing tests and found out > the two methods are very close to equivalent in timing, and on long lists, > the first way is actually faster. > > So much for improving on LC's text chunking speed. Pah. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
