>I have a VFP7 class with an empty string property. After instantiation, from 3 to 9 methods get called, and each concatenates 100-500 bytes in rapid succession, resulting in about a 5k stirng property when it's done. The caller consumes this string property before destroying the object.
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>Would it make sense to pre-allocate memory for the object by setting the string property to Space(8192), and on the first write set the property to the first string and then concatenate after that?
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>I am thinking that the object would run "faster" because the OS (or runtime) would not have to grow the stack space for the object as it runs. This is for a web app where I have potentially 60-70 objects going at any given second.
You could run some tests and let us know ;-)
Seriously, the only thing I can see that might be an issue would be the following:
MyProp = SPACE(8192)
MyProp = < 100 Length String >
Regards. Al
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