Re: BASE_CUSTOM and 64-bit values

[David Arnold <davida () pobox com>]

On 25/03/2013, at 10:23 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

> On 03/17/13 11:58, David Arnold wrote:

<...>

> > My question then becomes one of consistency: should I do this for all my BASE_CUSTOM cases?   Or is there some 
> > advantage in using BASE_CUSTOM that I've missed (beyond saving a couple of lines of code)?
>
> The advantage of BASE_CUSTOM is that the presentation is built only if/when it is needed (whereas the code you've 
> done there obviously builds the presentation--and stores it--well before it is used).

And so this is likely to have reasonable impact on the speed of loading a capture file, or maximum live capture rate, 
right?

Is there any enthusiasm for a BASE_CUSTOM64?




d

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