Without knowing anything other than "the IDE is like treacle" I loaded various stacks in Windows to see what the complaint could possibly be about. 8 seconds for IDE to start - no treacle on opening stacks 8 seconds to open Dictionary - no treacle on searching Dictionary (given it's loading 1000 pages of lightning-fast searchable text, I think 8 seconds isn't too bad). I generally open it once and don't shut it until I close LC.
So I created a new stack and pasted 8000 lines of text into the Script Editor. Typing in the Editor then became treacley (but not on OS X). Switching off Edit/Options/live errors removed any speed degradation on typing. Assuming I've correctly identified where the issue is, the issue is not the IDE, the issue is doing something specific with large scripts inside the Script Editor. That may well be the issue that Mark Waddingham was discussing about sorting text. The Script editor doesn't slow down with 100s of lines. As for general weirdness with Windows. When Windows "anti-virus" scam kicks in every day, my laptop stops working (even trying to switch between apps is treacley). This is something MS have made almost impossible to disable (I haven't found a way), and I can't set the priority low. I just have to leave the laptop for an hour and go to do something else. Someone trying to save a file during this scan is likely to experience slow file saves. I've also seen Windows Update taking large amounts of RAM. These things are less noticeable on my Windows desktop. Regards, Bernard On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:15 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > It's worse than the unicode text issue. Saving stacks is from my setup 7 > to 8 times slower in Windows than on a Mac, and I have tried numerous > Windows configurations from bare metal to VMWare servers running on a > robust host. In discussions in the past, it seems there isn't a lot > Livecode can do about it. The issues are with Windows itself. At least that > was the upshot of the discussions. > > Bob S > > > > On Sep 3, 2021, at 06:56 , Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > I was wondering this too: when Lagi mentioned 'fix the IDE' I thought > this might be a reference to some of a number of usabiity snags - it didn't > occur to me that it was just speed. > > > > I develop on a nine-year old MacBook and have never noticed a speed > issue with the IDE. I wonder if it's possible that the Windows IDE has been > affected by the same issue to do with manipulating quantities of text that > I've been talking about on the list, which Mark W has suggested might be > fixed in a release very shortly? (Seems unlikely!) But definitely seems to > be something platform specific. > > > > Lagi, if you're still able to access a 6.7 installer, could you confirm > whether the IDE under 6.7 has the same problem on your set up? The problems > with speed on Windows that I'm seeing came in after 6.7. > > > > Ben > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode