SM Advanced Plugin vs Custom Function

[wintergreen]

Hi

I'm curious as to whether it would be worth getting SMA in order to port some custom functions over as plugins.

First of all, is there a performance improvement to compiling a scriptmaster plugin of a scriptmaster function (for example, the XPath function)?

Secondly, if I were to take a typical filemaker custom function (such as Quicksort()), rewrite it in groovy and then compile that as a plugin, would that boost performance?

Thanks

[Smef]

Scriptmaster modules compiled as plugins do not need to be registered using a registration function call, and so you don't need to spend the time doing that, and so performance is improved in that way.

The speed of the function you rewrite in groovy would be dependent on how efficiently you write your module, so I can't say how fast or slow it would be if you did that.