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Hello Graig,
Thanks for the reply, I had a suspicion that it was better to assign
the formula to a variable.....I just wasn't sure what the effect of using
the extra variable's would be.
Best wishes,
Adam Hefner.
VonHef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
From: Craig DeHaan <cdehaan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 2:52 AM
Subject: Re: Programming Question.....
>Adam,
>I haven't confirmed the effect on computation speed, but this post from
>SI addressed a similar question last year. Preassigning variables
>directly within a formula would seem to be the most efficient method.
>Craig
>
>=============
>Talk : Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window
>
>To: Craig DeHaan (1795 )
>From: Paul Beattie
>Sunday, Mar 29 1998 3:40PM ET
>Reply # of 2856
>
>Craig,
>MSWIN6.5 precompiles its formulas, in indicators, experts and
>explorations as far as I can tell. MSWIN6 did not do that. On my
>machine, the time it takes to run an exploration with:
>
>A:=Fml("Insynch Index");
>A>Ref(A,-1)
>
>is significantly less than it takes with:
>Fml("Insynch Index")>Ref(Fml("Insynch Index"),-1)
>
>In the first case, Insynch is only calculated once. It's harder to
>notice
>when you're pulling up a chart with indicators, but I think it makes a
>difference.
>
>Try it and see.
>
>Paul
>========
>
>Adam Hefner wrote:
>>
>> I am writing a formula, lets call it "Code B" which will use the result
(or
>> a value of a variable)
>> from lets call it "Code A" multiple times.....now, is it more / less
>> efficient to "call" the value
>> from "A" each time I need it, or would it be better to assign this value
to
>> a variable in "B" and
>> use this "B variable" for all the calculations?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Adam Hefner.
>> VonHef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
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