Subj : SlyVote
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue May 19 2020 15:00:19

  Re: SlyVote
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue May 19 2020 02:07 pm

 >   Re: SlyVote
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Aug 08 2017 11:56 am
 >
 >  DM> I'll play with tuning that in a couple of days. The first thing I
 >  DM> notice is the reference to msgbase.total_msgs in your loop. It would be
 >  DM> an improvement in speed to cache this property in a local variable as
 >  DM> every time you read that property, the underlying code in the MsgBase
 >  DM> class goes and reads the status of the message base:
 >
 >  DM> var total_msgs = msgbase.total_msgs;
 >  DM> for (var i = 0; !subBoardHasPolls && (i < total_msgs); ++i)
 >
 >  DM> I tried this enhancement on Vert and it made only a slight improvement
 >  DM> in performance, so that's not the main issue. It could be a problem in
 >  DM> the get_msg_index method. I'll look into it.
 >
 > Hi DM - I know this is an old message I'm replying to - we were discussing
 > speed-related issues when I was initially working on SlyVote.  I was curious
 > if you had ever found anything that might help the speed issues we had
 > noticed?

I added the MsgBase.get_index() method about a year ago for use in msglist.js which enhanced the performance considerable. Have you tried using that?

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