[FX.php List] Query question

[Dale Bengston]

I have found that for just about any calculation, sifting, sorting,  
subtotaling or whatever, it's faster to do it in PHP than to  
accomplish the same thing in FMP and return it to the web. I don't  
have any benchmarks, but this has been my experience.

Dale

On Jan 26, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Troy Meyers wrote:

> Thanks Dale, interesting. Is that something you've discovered, or  
> is it documented? (I'm not doubting you, I just wonder how you knew.)
>
> -Troy
>
>
>> Even if you could do a "constrain found set via FX, it would be much
>> faster to constrain the found set with PHP. Unless you're  
>> retrieving   a
>> 10,000-record haystack from which to filter out a needle.
>>
>> Dale
>
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