Neville,
Use "compact stack" to get rid of space formerly used by now-deleted
objects.
See the docs.
Phil Davis
On 5/21/18 5:42 PM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode wrote:
I am constructing a large stack as a test for a bug report (to report the slow
saving of large stacks for a standalone Windows 10 app under LC 8.x). I start
with a stack with a single card which saves as a 28 KB file. I then use a
script to create 299 copies of card 1. The resulting stack saves to a 8.2 MB
file. As expected.
I then deleted all but the first card, and re-ran the script so it again had
300 cards. This saves to a 16.4 MB file! Repeating the delete-and-create gives
a 24 MB file. Evidently the data for the deleted cards has not been removed. I
can think of efficiency reasons why this might be useful in the IDE, but there
must/should be a way to reduce the file size to a minimum, otherwise stacks
which continually delete and create data will just grow in a very
user-unfriendly way.
I can’t find any command such as clean or purge or free or compress or release
garbage which will reduce the file size to its actual requirements. I have a
vague memory of this being raised some years ago but I can’t find the
reference. Surely there must be a built-in command? Because the only way I can
see to reduce the size would be to create a new stack and copy over all cards
and scripts and substacks before saving, which is ridiculous.
BTW The bug: The 8.2MB stack saves on a Mac in 0.27 seconds. On Windows 10
saving time is 6.4 seconds. Other apps on Windows save an 8 MB file in under a
second so the problem is not with the Windows OS or antivirus virus software or
the particular machine. Possibly this bug is related to the reported
unusablility of LC 9 IDE on Windows 10, of which I have heard no more since it
was raised in this forum a few weeks ago, although my context is a standalone
compiled under LC 8.x.
Neville Smythe
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