With the current implementation of the engine, the only reason using empty is faster than using pValue is because the latter requires a variable lookup, the former is a constant.
What are you using sValueCache for? Sent from my iPhone > On 19 Aug 2016, at 19:37, Mark Talluto <m...@canelasoftware.com> wrote: > > >> On Aug 19, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> wrote: >> >> command shareAndStoreKey @xArray, pKey, pValue >> set the caseSensitive to true -- this is assuming your values are >> sensitive to case >> if pValue is not among the keys of sValueCache then >> put pValue into sValueCache[pValue] >> end if >> put sValueCache[pValue] into xArray[pKey] >> end command > > > Hi Mark, > > We have been doing: > put empty into sValueCache[pValue] --as an optimization. > > How does this compare to: > put pValue into sValueCache[pValue] --in terms of performance? > > > Best regards, > > Mark Talluto > livecloud.io > canelasoftware.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
