Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-03 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:02 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Script length may have something to do with the editor delays. It takes more time to process text in v7. I'm currently converting a stack where no scripts are longer than a few hundred lines (most are under 500)

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/3/2015 7:53 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:02 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Script length may have something to do with the editor delays. It takes more time to process text in v7. I'm currently converting a stack where no scripts are longer than a

Re: LiveCode 8 [was: Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?]

2015-06-02 Thread Terence Heaford
On 2 Jun 2015, at 09:23, Peter TB Brett peter.br...@livecode.com wrote: At the moment, I expect that we will probably be recommending using Atom for editing LCB source code. I am not familiar with using Atom but I presume it will mean: 1. Code in Atom 2. Transfer to LC 3. Test in LC 4.

Re: LiveCode 8 [was: Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?]

2015-06-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-06-02 11:25, Terence Heaford wrote: On 2 Jun 2015, at 09:23, Peter TB Brett peter.br...@livecode.com wrote: At the moment, I expect that we will probably be recommending using Atom for editing LCB source code. I am not familiar with using Atom but I presume it will mean: 1. Code in

LiveCode 8 [was: Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?]

2015-06-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-06-01 19:17, Terence Heaford wrote: On 1 Jun 2015, at 14:16, Peter TB Brett peter.br...@livecode.com wrote: Unless some major showstopper problems are encountered, there will be commercial builds of the next release of LiveCode 8. That'll be in the next couple of weeks. Will

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-02 Thread Dave Kilroy
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Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:02 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Script length may have something to do with the editor delays. It takes more time to process text in v7. I'm currently converting a stack where no scripts are longer than a few hundred lines (most are under 500)

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-02 Thread Dave Kilroy
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Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Dave Kilroy
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Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Graham Samuel
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Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Dave Kilroy
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Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-06-01 13:54, Dave Kilroy wrote: Thanks for the confirmation Peter To get through the iOS App Store I need a commercial version of LiveCode, so can you give us a rough date of when a commercial version of v8 will be released? I'm not after a definite date but something I can use to

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Dave Kilroy d...@applicationinsight.com wrote: I say 'in general' because v7 seems to be more fragile than earlier versions because sometimes when I hit an error in my code the IDE becomes sluggish afterwards becomes sluggish Mine *starts* with a 2s or

RE: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread John Dixon
From: t.heaf...@icloud.com Subject: Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7? Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 18:17:46 +0100 To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com On 1 Jun 2015, at 14:16, Peter TB Brett peter.br...@livecode.com wrote: Unless some major showstopper problems

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
John Dixon wrote: On 1 Jun 2015, at 14:16, Peter TB Brett wrote: Unless some major showstopper problems are encountered, there will be commercial builds of the next release of LiveCode 8. That'll be in the next couple of weeks. Will this be after the bugs in LC 7 have been sorted ?

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Terence Heaford
On 1 Jun 2015, at 14:16, Peter TB Brett peter.br...@livecode.com wrote: Unless some major showstopper problems are encountered, there will be commercial builds of the next release of LiveCode 8. That'll be in the next couple of weeks. Will there be a built-in LCB editor or will it rely

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Dave Kilroy
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Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Mark Talluto use...@canelasoftware.com wrote: Tom, have you tried Navigator by Geoff Canyon? I have it open every day, all the time. No issues. It is a very solid replacement for the project browser. It is all text. Small footprint on screen too. Fast! For

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread Dave Kilroy
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Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-06-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/1/2015 4:38 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: I have no idea why some people seem to get on ok with v7 and others don't - and hope RunRev manage to figure out what is going on... Script length may have something to do with the editor delays. It takes more time to process text in v7. I'm currently

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread tbodine
is labeled a release candidate. Thanks, Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/How-do-you-handle-the-poor-performance-of-LC-7-tp4692676p4692780.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thanks for submitting that report, Tom. I just added some notes there that may be helpful. Do you recall if these crashes occur more frequently if the Project Browser is open? I ask because one of the differences between that IDE component and others is that it's not merely much newer, but

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Wilöhelm, as a fellow benchmarking fan I always look forward to your ongoing graphics manipulation metrics with enthusiasm. Your tests are well detailed, and you keep enviably complete notes on them. I have a couple small thoughts on the tests themselves, and one about the bigger picture of

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread tbodine
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Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tom Bodine wrote: I virtually always have the project browser open! Try running with it off for a while, perhaps using the App Browser instead. I know that's asking a lot, 'cause the Project Browser is pretty handy. But it'll certainly narrow things down if your crashes go away with it not

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread Mark Talluto
On May 31, 2015, at 2:33 PM, tbodine bod...@bodinetraininggames.com wrote: I have turn off all 3rd-party plug-in tools in case those are a factor and will see if there are any improvements. Tom, have you tried Navigator by Geoff Canyon? I have it open every day, all the time. No issues. It

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread tbodine
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Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread Mike Bonner
@tBodine If it were me, I'd also try to evaluate time as a factor. Does the crash chance increase based on how long lc or the system itself has been running? Is there a chance that there is an external drive involved in the problem, like a usb drive that spins down into power save mode (or

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread tbodine
the machine. Thanks for the insights. Tom -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/How-do-you-handle-the-poor-performance-of-LC-7-tp4692676p4692796.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tom Bodine wrote: I am trying to move entirely to V7 engine, but as Brahmanathaswami notes, 7.0.5 is makes it very hard with frequent and unpredictable hard crashes. (I'm on Win 7. Yes, crash report filed, but not for every crash because at this rate that would become about half my work

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread sanke
The somewhat sluggish behavior of all LC versions 7.x is apparent without testing a single script over several versions. Just use the LC IDE and copy and paste any object and you see how reluctantly the IDE performs these basic steps. In my case this is on a Windows machine with Windows 7 and

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread Richmond
On 31/05/15 00:05, Mark Wieder wrote: On 05/30/2015 12:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: along the way or are new converts to LiceCode. And add to those Oops. Obviously I meant LiveCode. Presumably LiceCode is the version full of bugs! Richmond. ___

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter W A Wood wrote: On 31 May 2015, at 07:07, Richard Gaskin wrote: If there are bugs that have been submitted but not acted on and are holding up work without a workaround, let's identify those and get them resolved. ... I reported a bug - http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15173

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: I too have used only v7 for everything I've done recently for myself (no released products - just stuff I do for myself and friends/family). I've been still using v6 when I don't control it all myself. I'm happy to say I've had no crashes, no serious IDE problems and few

AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Gesendet: Samstag, 30. Mai 2015 15:51 An: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Betreff: Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7? Hey Tiemo, what does the xSortListe function do? What is rather funny that my real life problem childs are also revolving around a live search feature. It might

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 09:58 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi Malte, you and Richard are on the right trace - and I was blind :) Nonetheless, if there's a significant performance hit in *the same code* running on different LC versions, then it's something to worry about. -- Mark Wieder

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: The problem is that pretty good isn't good enough for LiveCode positioning itself in the marketplace, and that bodes ill for all of us who hope for its continued existence. We old-timers are more willing to accept some of the flaws, the degradations in performance, the

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 12:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: along the way or are new converts to LiceCode. And add to those Oops. Obviously I meant LiveCode. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 08:07 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In short, the developers were completely insulated from any understanding of the average user experience. It simply wasn't possible for them to know how slow their code had become in the eyes of their market. I had a similar experience doing QA

Subject: Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi All, Everyone won't ever always be happy, but when do the rest of us turn those frowns upside down? In what month or year? Tell us about the timing of the arrival of the light at the end of the tunnel. What is your guess as to WHEN? Wondering. Of course, this asks for total speculation. Of

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Nonetheless, if there's a significant performance hit in *the same code* running on different LC versions, then it's something to worry about. If we were in a more optimistic mood, we could say: LiveCode 7 is very good at exposing suboptimal algorithms. ;) Of course it

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 10:54 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If we were in a more optimistic mood, we could say: LiveCode 7 is very good at exposing suboptimal algorithms. Yep. And for dp or rc builds I think that's a good thing. But not for 'stable' releases. That most stuff works without any

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: It turned out that the acquiring company is very generous with their developers, outfitting them with the very latest and fastest Macs loaded with maximum RAM and the fastest HDDs on the market. I hit the

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-05-30 19:33, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I made some more performance benchmarks with my real life data I deactivated my special sort xSortListe handler and replaced it just by: 1. sort lines of tListe numeric 2. sort lines of tListe international (though it is not a solution for my

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Brahmanathaswami
And then there is the rest of us... how many I don't know. I'm not Programmer per se... I did some PHP, kinda grok JS... and they make me very edgy if I start thinking about useing them to getting work done. ... Mostly I just need to get stuff done today! I can hack up a stack for

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/29/2015 09:27 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Most of our c# stuff is still .Net ;) Yeah, C# isn't really as bad as it might be. The language itself is reasonable, if only it could be separated from the .NET stuff. nodejs debugging suite, built in git client, great js intellisense while

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 11:19 AM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: But... I'm not a programmer... I''ve seen some of the code you've thrown together, and I beg to differ. So I get it that there may be a lot of weeping and wailing if you are doing industrial systems. In that world perhaps the time has passed

AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
unacceptable Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Tiemo Hollmann TB Gesendet: Samstag, 30. Mai 2015 18:59 An: 'How to use LiveCode' Betreff: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7? Hi Malte, you

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de wrote: I made some more performance benchmarks with my real life data I deactivated my special sort xSortListe handler and replaced it just by: 1. sort lines of tListe numeric 2. sort lines of tListe international

Re: Subject: Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Rauterkus wrote: So, one possible answer as to how to handle the poor performance of LC 7 is to wait. But how long is that waiting? Depends on the specifics of this issue. What performance issues are affecting your apps? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Malte Brill wrote: And thankfully, warts and all, none of the issues with LiveCode are preventing Trevor, myself, and many others from shipping products made with it. Out of interest, how many of those have you moved to use the 7 engine? Currently everything I do in LiveCode is done in

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: On 05/30/2015 12:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: along the way or are new converts to LiceCode. And add to those Oops. Obviously I meant LiveCode. LiceCode: the hairiest programming experience you will ever have. The

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 31/05/2015 00:07, Richard Gaskin wrote: Currently everything I do in LiveCode is done in v7.0.5. I too have used only v7 for everything I've done recently for myself (no released products - just stuff I do for myself and friends/family). I've been still using v6 when I don't control it

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 04:45 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: LiceCode: the hairiest programming experience you will ever have. The compiler is truly nit-picking . . . :) I should have known I was opening the door to lousy puns. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Brahmanathaswami
Mark Wieder wrote: Yeah, but here's the difference: you're the boss, you can make the decisions, you don't have to convince upper management about how new development tools fit into the existing set; and you don't have to manage a group of half a dozen engineers all trying to make changes to

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Malte Brill
And thankfully, warts and all, none of the issues with LiveCode are preventing Trevor, myself, and many others from shipping products made with it. Out of interest, how many of those have you moved to use the 7 engine? I have no interest in lamenting here. I do admire the job that has been

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richard On 31 May 2015, at 07:07, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: If there are bugs that have been submitted but not acted on and are holding up work without a workaround, let's identify those and get them resolved. In addition to review of the current bug DB, Ben

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richmond
How do I handle the poor performance of LC 7? Make sure I deploy my standalones on computers that are over 7 years old; then one doesn't notice the difference! Seriously; most of my computers are a bit like me: of a certain age and I haven't really noticed a difference. Richmond.

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 30 mai 2015 à 01:17, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com a écrit : The ability to deliver a single compact binary file that contains both objects and code contributes strongly to LiveCode's uncommon productivity, Not only… Nobody seems to care around about something possibly more

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hey Tiemo, what does the xSortListe function do? What is rather funny that my real life problem childs are also revolving around a live search feature. It might well be that your speed issues (as mine) are related to the sorting part (if you do a sort). My approach is a little diffrent than

AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
. Mai 2015 20:12 An: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Betreff: Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7? Tiemo Hollmann wrote: Testing my stacks in LC 7.0.5 , they show such a poor performance. E.g. plain repeat loops with 20,000 records which take a fraction of a second in LC 6, last

AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7? I set up a couple of benchmark stacks a while back: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=67t=22072 http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=67t=22072 Bad thing was that the team wanted to see „real live scenarios“ (which most of my benchmark

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mike Bonner
Malte, it might help if you don't sort the keys on each keystroke, instead put the keys into a list and sort them once, then keep referring to that same list as you do your filtering. Its faster to pop the full sorted list into a working variable on each keystroke and filter than it is to get the

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Malte, it might help if you don't sort the keys on each keystroke, instead put the keys into a list and sort them once, then keep referring to that same list as you do your filtering. Its faster to pop the full sorted list

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: How do I handle the poor performance of LC 7? Make sure I deploy my standalones on computers that are over 7 years old; then one doesn't notice the difference! Seriously; most of my computers are a bit like me: of a certain age and I haven't really noticed a difference.

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thanks for sending your stack to the team. Please let us know the outcome. And thanks for posting that handler. Mike and Richard already hit on the only two items that come to mind (sorting and filtering), but I'm curious: How does performance look if you comment out the call to

How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I am producing with LC 6.5.2 on a very fast Win 7 machine. Testing my stacks in LC 7.0.5 , they show such a poor performance. E.g. plain repeat loops with 20,000 records which take a fraction of a second in LC 6, last up to 10 seconds in LC 7, which is more than unacceptable for me / my

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de wrote: I am producing with LC 6.5.2 on a very fast Win 7 machine. Testing my stacks in LC 7.0.5 , they show such a poor performance. E.g. plain repeat loops with 20,000 records which take a fraction of a second in LC 6,

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Roger Eller
LC 6.5.2 is my daily driver on Win7. All the new versions seem sluggish. I don't see how LC 8 can be optimized already since it is only a developer preview, which I would never trust for production work. ~Roger On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de wrote:

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Waddingham
Bad thing was that the team wanted to see „real live scenarios“ (which most of my benchmark stacks are, just boiled down to the core of the problems as I found them). Yes - 'real world scenarios' are important - posting a small piece of code and running it 10,000 times just tells you how long

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Ray
I'll throw in my two cents here confirming that I've seen a slow down moving from 6.5.2 to 7.0.2(rc 2). On 5/29/2015 4:22 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: LC 6.5.2 is my daily driver on Win7. I've been using 6.7.x -- do

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: As a personal rule of thumb, I don't use anything post-6.x.x for anything but trying out the bleeding edge features. I have no choice; I absolutely need the adjustable scaling on the desktop. So I deal with performance by

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Waddingham
(once more, it took my quad core i5 ten or fifteen minutes to build a standalone yesterday). Do you have 'search for required inclusions' turned on? If so - try turning it off and see if you get a performance improvement. Not knowing the structure of the app you are trying to build I can't

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Malte Brill
I set up a couple of benchmark stacks a while back: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=67t=22072 http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=67t=22072 Bad thing was that the team wanted to see „real live scenarios“ (which most of my benchmark stacks are, just boiled down to the core of

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Tiemo Hollmann TB toolbook@... writes: How do you handle this performance issue in your projects? What works for me is building a 64-bit 6.7x engine from source. The only time I venture into LC7 land is to check compatibility. Otherwise it's too unstable, slow, and buggy for me to work with.

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Roger Eller
I only made it to 6.6.5 and some of the 7.x ones before I reverted to my most stable experience (on Windows anyway). On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: LC 6.5.2 is my daily

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew Kluthe
As a personal rule of thumb, I don't use anything post-6.x.x for anything but trying out the bleeding edge features. Most of my critical stuff uses 5.5 due to previous performance concerns before they even officially rolled out 7. It seems to be a lot better now, but I guess I've just been hanging

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Mark Waddingham m...@livecode.com wrote: The important thing here (which reinforces me saying 'real world scenarios' are important) is that if my goal was to optimise the engine to make simpleArrayTest fast then I could. Indeed, it would be possible to make it

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andrew Kluthe wrote: I guess I've just been hanging back from upgrading the important stuff until I stop seeing emails like these on the list. There is some performance degradation with v7, but improved in recent builds and often the difference may be measurable but not noticeable. There's

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tiemo Hollmann wrote: Testing my stacks in LC 7.0.5 , they show such a poor performance. E.g. plain repeat loops with 20,000 records which take a fraction of a second in LC 6, last up to 10 seconds in LC 7, which is more than unacceptable for me / my clients on old poor machines. Can you

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Ray
Earlier today I jumped in briefly on this thread to confirm I had also experienced slower performance and on the same hand I'd like to jump back in now in full agreement with Trevor. Coincidentally, just yesterday I was railing on to my wife (an excellent listener) about the old Hypercard

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andrew Kluthe wrote: I think the decision boiled down to just wanting more mainstream processes for development and being able to find programmers we didn't have to train from scratch. So the decision was made to become a .Net shop... Ah yes, that's a conversation I know well. Some of the

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Dr. Hawkins dochawk@... writes: Several years ago (ok, it's really decades), Byte had a standard test suite to compare compilers. Then they hit a compiler that recognized nothing was done with the information, and optimized the entire suite out . . . produced something that executed in 0 .

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Most of our c# stuff is still .Net ;) I've come to really like more staticly typed development ( one thing I love about lcb stuff I've messed with) and now I can do all my js and node work in the same ide. I never thought I'd say it, but visual studio and c# and .net is growing on me.

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Exactly Trevor and Richard. I agree strongly with both sentiments. There is great promise in what's coming up but what we have now, I think, is still in transition. And yes, since montes effort on lcvcs and the new flat file lcb libraries, VCS support is being addressed. I'm excited to build

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/29/2015 07:28 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: And yes, since montes effort on lcvcs and the new flat file lcb libraries, VCS support is being addressed. I'm excited to build something great. But unfortunately, even after the transition and this new stuff is continuing to wow us I don't think

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I'd still like to do other work in LC (less scale, less risk) but for things like industrial control systems, warehouse management, etc. where there are thousands or millions of dollars on the line, I guess it isn't that 7.0 is really that bad as much as it was the wrong tool for us at the wrong

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Boy I was your man. I know Foxpro and Livecode well. I actually expanded some SBT modules and when I got really good, I wrote my own new ones. Too bad, Ida come on board. Bob S On May 29, 2015, at 13:54 , Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.memailto:and...@ctech.me wrote: I was hired to convert

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Not a bad option for some, then. Unfortunately, decisions like that on the software in question are over my head. They have decided they would rather I just do it in something more mainstream, than spend time in that way. I fought tooth and nail to get permission to do it in livecode. It works, it

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Of note, the only things wrong with the prototypes we did were that the reports (pulling large amounts of data from a server, processing it, generating html reports and outputting it) were noticeably slower (not like what is often reported on this list, but slow enough for someone to notice its

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andrew Kluthe wrote: I totally understand what you're talking about there, but between a full time gig, very young children, and freelance work at night. I just don't know where I'd find the time to be effective at giving them the level of detail that they need. I hear you. The only reason

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-05-29 21:12, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Thanks for the reply, Richard. I totally understand what you're talking about there, but between a full time gig, very young children, and freelance work at night. I just don't know where I'd find the time to be effective at giving them the level of

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: LC 6.5.2 is my daily driver on Win7. I've been using 6.7.x -- do you see a substantial difference between 6.5.2 and that? gc ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Thanks for the reply, Richard. I totally understand what you're talking about there, but between a full time gig, very young children, and freelance work at night. I just don't know where I'd find the time to be effective at giving them the level of detail that they need. I can't give them the

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: ... It's not really an excuse to sit back and wait for someone else to find out the bugs as it is the hard reality of some people's situations. In short, the request for us to invest this much time in helping them figure