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Re: Create single file for empirical values in labview

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Originally Posted by smackee618 View Post
One more thing: I don't know why, but for some reason I was predisposed toward thinking that global variables were really slow. I think I read about it somewhere. Does anybody know why I thought this?
Global variables are horrendously slow if you use arrays. Labview will attempt to copy the entire contents of the global array before using it, which as you know can be quite inefficient, especially when you only need a specific element.

here: http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/h...al_and_global/
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