Temporary Variables

When writing actions, you can reduce the amount of repeated processing within aggregate values or loops by storing computed values as temporary values.

A loop could be existence, for all or chaining conditions, as well as while loops or loop over objects operations.

If each iteration of the loop is performing some non-trivial work on the current object such as buffering, then it is quicker to perform the buffering once, assign the result to a temporary value and then use the temporary value within the loop.

The For all loop displayed in the action below will calculate the buffer of the current Centre-Line object for every iteration, even though the result will be identical each time.

The action below will be faster, as the buffer is calculated only once, stored as a temporary variable and then the temporary variable is used within the loop.