Questions inserting records with object pointers.

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 11/4/03 13:14, Fred.Stephenson at Fred.Stephenson at communication-unltd.com
wrote:

>> Because assign of LONG to LONG
>> Is at least 4 times faster that conversion
>> 
>>         LONG -> String -> LONG
>> 
>>>  I have no problem with "value" as I use it for doubles but never
>>>  bothered with other field types that I use
>>>  so that I could copy and paste and then just change the field names
>>>  (I'm extremely lazy ;?))
>> 
>> You can do this. But this is not best way :-)
>> 
>> That way is good although to have THE SAME line of code working for many
>> types.
>> 
> 
> yes that's what I meant when I say I'm lazy.
> for example, in rb, if I have a lot of fields I normally just do
> curs.field("fred").setstring(editfield1.text)
> curs.field("counter").setstring(editfield2.text)
> etc...
> 
> I wouldn't really have a massive speed increase if I wrote
> curs.field("fred").setstring(editfield1.text)
> curs.shortfield("counter").value=val(editfield2.text)
> etc...
> 
> would I ??

IF you apply this loop to 100,000 records then you will see difference.

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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