Squishing data

[Brian Yennie]

I'm not sure what you mean by "putting data in an array" changing the 
stack size: arrays are held in memory. Do you mean that you write the 
arrays to custom properties?

You may want to try using compress() on the field data, i.e.
set the compressed_data of fld 1 to compress(fld 1)

Then just access the fields with:
put decompress(the compressed_data of fld 1) into fieldData

For performance, you would want to only decompress() once- although 
keeping the uncompressed data in memory bumps your memory requirements 
so you'll have to balance memory vs. performance.

Compress() should get you a reasonable shrink on text, hopefully 50% or 
so.

Brian

> The stack with 300 fields is about 15 MB.  I tried putting the data 
> into an array, and deleting the fields.  But it actually makes the 
> stack bigger to do this.  I created an array with 300 elements, 
> myArray[1] held the data from field 1, and so forth.