[FX.php List] Faster record creation?

[Bob Patin]

I would think that a script might be faster than looping through and  
creating via the web; if I get bored I might give it a try, but  
offhand, even though I never use scripts for any web apps, this might  
be the exception.

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On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:

>
> On 17/09/2008, at 5:20 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>
>> Theoretically it's faster to create those 1064 records through XML  
>> RPC
>> than through ScriptMaker...
>> So I'd say you are going the right way, but 70 secs... that sounds  
>> a bit slow.
>
> Well, for kicks I went and created a page that creates 1000 records  
> and puts in only $i to one field and the auto-generated ID to  
> another field. No relationships, nothing else in the table except  
> the two fields, one layout - as simple as it is possible to go really.
>
> 77 seconds average on 5 runs
>
> Now that server isn't great - Dual 1Ghz G4 with 1.25 GB RAM, 10.4.1  
> running FMSA9 - but creating large recordsets does seem to be slow.
>
> Cheers
>
> Webko
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