[DGD] Reasonable Tick Counts?

[Noah Gibbs]

  Oh -- I should probably also say that there are much better and much worse
ways to code this kind of thing in DGD.  For instance, are you using
parse_string() to parse the escape sequences?  It's almost certainly the best
way to do it, and a character-by-character parser could conceivably be
inefficient enough to require 10k ticks on fairly modest inputs.

--- Kurt Nordstrom <kurt at blar.net> wrote:

> Been running into trouble lately with an "out of ticks" message in some
> code I have to parse codes into ansi escape sequences for use in
> communications.  Currently, I'm building off of a Melville base, and it
> sets the default maximum tick count to 100000.  The function I have that
> causes the overflow is a replace_str(str, original, new) function, that
> replaces all instances of "original" in "str" with "new".
> 
> Is it reasonable to have to expect to increase the tick count here, or is
> probably poor coding on my part?
> 
> And can anybody give me an idea of what a tick is anyhow?
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