I could make
print
clear the console.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Rolf Huehne <rhue...@fli-leibniz.de>
wrote:
> On 03/10/2015 04:34 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:
> > Rolf,
> >
> > I have not seen that issue -- I suppose this is going to the console, and
> > maybe your machine has memory issues with that -- too much printing? I
> did
> > recently set it to scroll to the end after each print, and that requires
> > calculating the number of characters, which I think Jmol perhaps was not
> > doing before. Check with a version that is a few months old and see if it
> > is the same or different, please.
> >
> It is going to the script console.
> The size of the output in the history console is clearly influencing
> print time. A few thousand lines of output already decrease the print
> speed very much as you can see in the example below:
>
> function stest(iMax) {
> var startTime = now();
> var counter = 0;
> for (i=1; i<iMax; i++) {
> counter++;
> var pMsg = "Iteration " + i + " of " + iMax + "...";
> print pMsg;
> }
> print "FINISHED: iterations=" + iMax + " counter=" + counter + "
> calculation time=" + now(startTime) + " ms";
> }
>
> ---- Test Results ---------------
> stest(1000);
> FINISHED: iterations=1000 counter=999 calculation time=475 ms
> stest(1000); # 5 times
> FINISHED: iterations=1000 counter=999 calculation time=1645 ms
> stest(10000);
> FINISHED: iterations=10000 counter=9999 calculation time=51051 ms
> stest(1000);
> FINISHED: iterations=1000 counter=999 calculation time=8480 ms
> ---------------------------------
>
> The earliest version I had available was 13.1.4 from 2012. I also
> checked 14.2.9 and 14.0.5. In general the slowdown can also be seen in
> all these versions. Since the 'now' function was introduced in 14.2 I
> can't provide exact timing information for the older versions.
> In all of them the display follows the bottom of the output.
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
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