Re: copymemory basic question

mscir wrote:
> Have you seen this:
>
> http://www.aivosto.com/vbtips/not-optimize.html
>
> Static makes your app sooo static
>
> Did you know that Static local variables are slower than the normal
> Dim locals? One could think that Statics are faster as they don't
> need to get allocated every time you call the procedure. But it's not
> so. Use Dim unless you have to do Static.

Never had, no. Sure wish they offered some rationale for that, other than just
"because I said so." I've got an app here where it's clearly not the case. On some
machines, anyway. Would definitely be interesting to get to the bottom of it!
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