Find Text Brain-deadness

[orko]

I've attached a VI that describes this issue. Tested on LV8.6.1 and LV8.5.1

Download File:post-3266-1240351713.vi (LV8.5.1)

I've noticed before that my text string searches take incredibly too long on some of my larger applications, but haven't been able to pinpoint the circumstances until now. Basically, as arrays (I wouldn't doubt if clusters behaved the same or worse) grow in size...the searches for text strings get linearly longer to return results. The example uses a U16 integer array, so I'm not searching through a massive text array, which I could understand. I mean, the label/caption text of all array elements are the same....so why search through them all? (I'm assuming that's what's happening)

Joe