[X4U] OT - Unscientific Speed Test - PC-Mac-FileMaker

[revDAVE]

On 7/17/05 12:44 PM, "Edward Hillenbrand" <contact at verticaleye.net> wrote:

> As a software developer this is unbelievable. If I'm understanding
> you correctly, your essentially telling FileMaker to count and do
> nothing during each iteration.  Right?

This is the test that took 19 seconds to complete On a Mac dual 1.25.

My first test was set up as a simple loop:

Set field  speed = 0
loop
 Set field speed = speed +1
 exit loop if speed = 20,000
end loop


 However, based on your e-mail, did little bit of testing ...  And I created
the exact same test, however this time I change the field type from a normal
numeric field type to a global numeric field type ( which resides outside of
individual records ... And I thought might be faster...) and in fact the
exact same test now took 4 seconds to complete rather than 19 seconds...  So
I guess that normal record  type must have some kind of special overhead to
deal with...

 I find that somewhat interesting ... Do you? ... Not as good is C+ ... But
better...




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