LenB or LenBP?

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LenB or LenBP?

My current solution is using LenB, though I'm not clear about whether it's better to use LenB or LenBP.

I'm counting bytes of my string data using LenB, then adding some overhead I've observed from testing:
- switching from single-value to multi-value text field incurs a 6-byte overhead
- each additional value in a multi-value field incurs a 2-byte overhead

It seems to be working, thought I haven't tested it thoroughly enough to ensure that I am actually squeezing in as many bytes as possible. I am at least not getting errors.

One side discovery has been that NotesItem.Values is atrociously slow for iteration if you have a large number of values. For a little over 900 values, iterating over NotesItem.Values is taking about 10 seconds. If I instead copy them all in one go to a variant (someVariant=item.Values), then it takes less than a tenth of a second to iterate over the values in the variant.

Feedback response number WEBB82SAU5 created by ~Dean Dwoboosiplopjip on 02/18/2010