On 12/29/12 11:52 AM, Richmond wrote:
On 12/29/2012 09:38 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
Hi Richmond,
Just curious - does setting the lockMessages & lockScreen to true
speed it up any? Or hiding the field? (Sorry if these have already
been answered; I'm not following the thread too closely)
I really don't know as I am so "thick" those possibilities had not
occurred to me.
However, I cracked open my monster Sanskrit font and looked at it
FontForge and realised that I was being fairly bl**dy silly crunching
through
thousands of irrelevant unicode addresses, so chopped things up into 3
REPEAT UNTIL loops for the unicode ranges that were relevant to my work:
2325 - 2431
57354 - 58498
61952 - 62738
giving a saving of some 58371 interations!!!! and boiling the whole
thing down to about 5 seconds . . . that is on the same sample text I
previously used.
Wow! Nice gain.
HOWEVER . . . now I will play around with setting lockMessages and
lockScreen as per your suggestions to see if there is any appreciable
gain.
Phil; you state that you are "not following the thread too closely";
is that because it is not something that interests you, or do you have
a stake in Unicode text manipulation but have been busy elsewhere.
I am being dragged toward Unicode, kicking and screaming. It looms large
in my future, as one client has asked me to add support for Arabic in
his training system soon. But I don't have much experience with it. I'm
hoping the improvements in LC 5.5 and beyond will make for a little
smoother landing in UnicodeLand.
I sometimes get the feeling (err . . . paranoid) that I am the only
person using RR Livecode who is doing 'serious sh*t' with unicodeText;
but, hey, why should I worry?; in 1985, at the University of Durham, I
was the only student trying to process text with PASCAL 5 while all the
Physics students were crunching numbers.
On 12/29/12 8:18 AM, Richmond wrote:
ran it through unicode addresses from 2325 to 62738, which took
about 90 seconds, which is rather too long, so
will cut that down to run through several ranges of unicode
addresses rather than the whole shebang.
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