RE: Slow script with long lists
RE: Slow script with long lists
- Subject: RE: Slow script with long lists
- From: Dennis Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:12:45 -0500
> From: Eric Geoffroy
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Slow script with long lists
>
> Matt Neuberg's book has a great tip for a speed boost to list
> references. p. 259,260
> You target a reference to the list instead of the list directly, or
> more simply just add "my" in front of all of your list references.
> (except for when you "add to end of list".)
>
> I've used it and it works well.
>
> - Eric
>
> On Oct 18, 2005, at 8:42 PM, Chris Mahn wrote:
>
> > The script below achieves this goal, although it does it very very
> > slowly when the list is only moderately long (>300 songs). I
> > shudder to think of it working on 20,000 songs.
> >
> > Can someone help me make this process happen quickly or at least
> > much quicker?
> >
>
Matt Neuberg's tip is a good explanation of Serge Script Objects, mentioned
earlier this week by Paul Berkowitz.
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