John Mather

tamte
you can make a function that combines masks and use it in for loop for each mask or whatever you are doing

If the number of loop iterations is high, you may get better performance by putting the conditional outside of multiple loops.

e.g., instead of:

It may be faster to do:

This reduces the number of conditions that need to be checked per iteration and can help the compiler optimize.

Note that I also replaced the if chain with an else-if chain. This allows the code to short-circuit, meaning that if one of the upper conditions is true, it doesn't need to check any of the lower conditions. e.g., if op == 0 is true, it doesn't need to check op == 1, op == 2 or op == 3, as op can only have a single value.

I see - so your list included a few thousand .tx files?

Please send this information to support so that it can be forwarded to the correct developer for investigation.

One thing you can do is run Process Informer: https://systeminformer.sourceforge.io/downloads [systeminformer.sourceforge.io]

Install and run it, then reproduce your issue in Houdini.

Once you start getting the "Too many open files" message, find Houdini in Process Informer, right click on it and choose Properties, then go to the Handles tab. Scroll down to where the Type column is File. This should show you all of the file handles that are currently open.