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How to quickly find device category?

MedAn

How  can I speed up the search of teh category name for device?

Now I wrote a small script:

ret = nil;
libId = ddGetObj(IndraInitForm->techLibField->value);
catList = ddCatGetLibCats(libId);
foreach(cat catList
   catId = catId = ddCatFindCat(libId cat "r");

   when(catId != nil
      when(ddCatIsObjInCat(cName catId) ret = cat);
   );end when
);end foreach

ret;

But it's take really a lot of time. Maybe somebody can show me another way?

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  • I tried it on my library with 21 categories and 599 cells - and by running the profiler on your code above, running 100 times (in a for loop) it took 5.92 seconds (so that's 0.06 seconds to run once). However, in the profiler, it's spending nearly all of the time in ddCatFindCat.

    I suggest you use ddCatOpen() instead of ddCatFindCat - this is MUCH faster - the run time reduced to 0.28s for 100 runs. ddCatFindCat has some code in there to traverse the category hierarchy to find a sub-category, whereas in this case you're only accessing the top categories, I think.

    I still don't know why yours is so slow though - perhaps you have some hierarchical categories too? Anyway, probably ddCatOpen is the man for the job - otherwise you should contact customer support so that an application engineer can have a look with you.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • I tried it on my library with 21 categories and 599 cells - and by running the profiler on your code above, running 100 times (in a for loop) it took 5.92 seconds (so that's 0.06 seconds to run once). However, in the profiler, it's spending nearly all of the time in ddCatFindCat.

    I suggest you use ddCatOpen() instead of ddCatFindCat - this is MUCH faster - the run time reduced to 0.28s for 100 runs. ddCatFindCat has some code in there to traverse the category hierarchy to find a sub-category, whereas in this case you're only accessing the top categories, I think.

    I still don't know why yours is so slow though - perhaps you have some hierarchical categories too? Anyway, probably ddCatOpen is the man for the job - otherwise you should contact customer support so that an application engineer can have a look with you.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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