MEL Speed

[bigfatMELon]

A few ways to keep your MEL snappy:

-Try to avoid unnecessary loops. If you can easily get it done without a loop, do it.

-Don't divide. Multiply. For instance. If you need to divide some value by two, multiply it by .5 instead.

-Avoid printing to the screen. Very slow.

-Short circuiting your searches and logic. Sometimes you know that you can just let a portion of the script run whether it applies to the one possible situation or not and the result will work. However, if you can throw in an evaulation to see if it's necessary first, then that portion of the code can be skipped. For instance, let's say you are searching for an object in a string array who's name contains the word "joint." Adding a counter to evaluate whether the item has already found lets the search loop exit early.

-jl

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