Speed of different versions of MC?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Feb 12 17:03:34 CST 2013


On 2/12/13 12:19 PM, David Epstein wrote:
> After years of using Metacard 2.5, I've started using LiveCode 4.5 and
> 5.5.3 as well as the the Metacard interface for those.  Particularly on my
> older Mac (PowerPC chip System 10.4) I have noticed some significantly
> slower operations with the newer versions.  Is this consistent with others'
> experience?  And will stacks' performance as standalones tend to be roughly
> similar to how they work in the development environment with which I
> compile them?

I haven't noticed any differences, but I haven't had a PPC machine in 
years. Probably the only way to know if standalones are affected is to 
build one and see. Is there any pattern to the things that are slower? 
Maybe some of the many improvements since version 2.5 could handle those 
better.

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