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[rinus]

Hi there,

I made a program that reads message lines from gameserver logfiles, and removes color codes from the names. First (most important) problem is that due to the logfile sizes the process takes a while. I already added a progress bar for some animation, but i was wondering if there's faster ways than mine. Here's my code:

[Dr. Dread]

String.DLL will easily outperform VDS in any such type of string operation. It will also do the most common file
operation directly in files, and much faster than even loading the file into a VDS list (big files in VDS lists
are quite slow loading...)

BTW. VDS is not threaded so as long as your program is doing one operation, it will not proceed
handling button clicks etc. until that process has finished.

Greetz
Dr. Dread

PS: If ya don't need the other DLL functions - don't us'em

[rinus]

Thanks man, i figured there had to be a faster way of doing this, the loading takes a while indeed. My worst concerns however are the operations in the while loop, these were taking ages to complete lol. I'll test this string.dll right away, i'll let u know what speed improvements i come up with.


The second snippet i posted actually worked, only thing is that it had to check for events every time going thru te while loop... Maybe it's faster of testing IF a button was clicked, instead of testing WHICH button was clicked (if no button is clicked it will pass out of the if statement without evaluating the remaining conditions).

Anyways, thanks again for the advice!

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Rinus