This property provides a faster access to instrument information that using an instrument property.  It is faster because it is a memory pointer.  Pointers are used a lot in the best program so the software's design allows the program's options to work as fast as possible.

The various "ref" properties are object pointers to the actual instrument. Makes them very fast.

You can use test.instrumentList[x] to loop over the instruments in the test, but that returns a symbol, and TB then needs to lookup that symbol to find the instrument. Whereas the test.instrumentListRef[x] is an array of object pointers - immediate access to the instrument when used in the LoadSymbol.

Edit Time: 9/21/2020 3:49:02 PM

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