OpenEuphoria

Re: sequence speed

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Jun 24, 2000
• 410 views

Skoda writes:
> what is faster and for how much:
>
> 1. to have one big sequence of text in which you
> insert text when user inputs text
>
> 2. to have sequence which has sequences of text,
> which are lines of text, and inserting text in line
>
> i thought they were same fast

#2 will be faster since you are inserting into a
shorter sequence, and fewer characters will have
to be shifted around each time.

If you are doing some kind of editor, you'll probably
find the speed of updating the screen
to be a bigger concern.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com