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Blake_Bryce
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

Why is Javascript ReadLine() performance 100000% slower than Jscript?

I am in the process of converting our SmokeTest to javascript and we have a db error log we parse for Ora-errors. Before the conversion to javascript - this process took 12 seconds. Now using SmartBe...
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Blake_Bryce
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

I did open a ticket - they got back to me saying they were able to replicate the issue and forwarded it to dev.

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
10 years ago

Yep... that means that someone things it's a legit problem and needs to confer with the developers to determine potential solutions, either as a patch or in some sort of suggestion for different code.

In my experience, usually you'll get something back by the next business day.  At least they acknowledge that you've run across something problematic and that it needs some sort of corrective action.

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    Blake_Bryce
    Occasional Contributor
    10 years ago

    F.$get("AtEndOfStream"), F.$call(“ReadLine)

    This was the solution to the performance issue. Has to do with native COM object support in Jscipt but not in JavaScript

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      tristaanogre
      Esteemed Contributor
      10 years ago

      Ah, the JScript vs JavaScript thing again... burned me a bit on Wednesday...