I made a test with the same loops and the same data on LC 6.5.2 desktop Mac, and arrays run 20% faster than items... On LC9 server I get opposite results : items are 2 times faster then arrays.
As said in my original post, AFAIR U have always used arrays instead of items & lines because it has always been faster, even with multidimensional arrays... On Mon, August 20, 2018 9:57 pm, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: > Not really a huge surprise ... access to chunks such as 'item' and > 'line' are (potentially) slow when you are searching relatively large > strings. So the archetypal example > > repeat with i = 1 to N get line i of tBigString > end repeat > > can get slow if N is large, because of repeatedly scanning over large > leading sub-strings to get to line 'i'. > _______________________________________________ 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
