Malte, So happy that you're back here my friend. I too spent some time away.
So, refactoring and constantly trying to erase mistakes of my past coding self are a constant here. I wish we had better refactoring tools so that we could rename a handler and all code that called that handler was fixed, or stuff such as rename variable...
Cheers andre On 30/12/2018 19:33, Malte Pfaff-Brill via use-livecode wrote:
Hi list, I finally found the time to test / move one of my old projects from the 6.x (started in 3.x) to the 9.x engine. At first I was very very disappointed about performance. The stack was somewhat between acceptable and snappy in the 6.x engine series, rather unusable on 8 and on 9. This basically led to so much frustration that I basically gave up on the project, coding and LiveCode as a whole. I had a bit of time on my own during the holidays, so I started to analyse where the slowdowns actually happened. It seems I do owe the 9.x engine an apology, expecting everything to work as it used to in 6 is not the way I should have gone. After a refactor of my scripts I am now sitting with a version of my stack that works faster as it did in 5.x / 6.x. General and fixable observations: The IDE spams a lot of IDE only messages when creating many objects by script -> remedy: Lock messages Nested Lock screens are a big "NO-NO“ nowadays You can not rely on the screen being unlocked immediately at the end of a handler Not yet fixable for me: Array operations on larger data sets still slower than they were Non engine related: My SQL-Fu has improved a bit ;-) Quite a bit of performance to gain there. Did anybody of you happen to refactor old code and if so, do you have any observations you might want to share? Cheers, Malte _______________________________________________ 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
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