Iniwrite and Filehandle

[JohnOne]

After a recent topic, I started farting about with .ini files to see if the work with a file handle returned by FileOpen.

They do, but do not seem to be any quicker, and most of the time, slower.

I'm just a little curious as to why this is, if anyone knows?

It seems a lot faster with FileWrite.

Here's the script I used.

$sfile = @ScriptDir & "\test.ini"
;$hfile = FileOpen(@ScriptDir & "\test.ini",1)

Sleep(2000); just to give the interpreter a chance to start up

$timer = TimerInit()
For $i = 0 To 1000
    IniWrite($sfile,$i,$i,$i); Change to $hfile
Next
ConsoleWrite(TimerDiff($timer) & @CRLF)

And my results

I tried more than a few times.

filename = 1948.78538678726

filehandle = 1995.27468244446

EDIT:

I think I used to few writes, I tried with 5000 this time and the results were what I expected.

;filename = 16165.4754829552

;filehandle = 19510.1253164002

EDIT2:

Wait, No, filename was 3 seconds faster

Edited August 9, 2011 by JohnOne

[Jos]

Are you sure the INIWrite(FileHandle,,) works?

$sfile = @ScriptDir & "\xxxx1.ini"
$hfile = FileOpen(@ScriptDir & "\xxxx2.ini",1)
Sleep(200); just to give the interpreter a chance to start up
$timer = TimerInit()
For $i = 0 To 1000
    IniWrite($sfile,$i,$i,$i)
    IniWrite($hfile,$i,$i,$i)
Next
ConsoleWrite(TimerDiff($timer) & @CRLF)

Edited August 9, 2011 by Jos

[JohnOne]

Not now I'm not

I was just a minute ago though. Cheers Jos.

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