Frank is founder of and research engineer at Rubber Boots Data
At least five of FileMaker’s script steps appear to trigger what I am calling ‘speed bumps’: temporary drops in performance after their execution. This post shows when and how speed bumps can stack up and escalate ( even causing mega speed bumps ), and provides suggestions for how to avoid them. … More Understanding escalating ‘speed bumps’ and how to avoid them
FileMaker’s Insert from URL script step, and at least four more script steps, appear to trigger temporary drops in performance after their execution. This post will address how how big the total delay is and how long these ‘speed bumps’ last. … More ‘Speed bumps’, size and duration
Previously, I stumbled upon a ‘speed bump’ effect of the Pause script step in FileMaker scripts. That is, after a pause step, subsequent steps became slower. This post identifies five more steps with a similar effect. … More The Pause step and other speed bumps
This post introduces the Speed Test Viewer, a free FileMaker solution to explore speed measurement data. It also makes a demo file available which shows off the viewer’s features based on the data from my posts of the past two months … More Speed Test Viewer
How to design a mechanism to allow the user to gracefully abort script execution? ‘Allow User Abort’ needs to be off to prevent an ungraceful abort. Buttons do not work during script execution. Which other means are then left? The answer is only a keystroke away … More Gracefully aborting script execution
The pause step that was introduced in baseline script v3 caused it to fail the calibration test. This post analyzes what happens when and after a pause step is executed, and how it impacts performance. … More Speed testing: Baseline script v4. The impact of the Pause step on script performance.
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