set the textstyle is dramatically slower on 7.0.1 than 5.5
Bob Sneidar
bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Wed Dec 31 10:36:54 EST 2014
Do you lock the screen before doing something like this?
Bob S
> On Dec 31, 2014, at 02:28 , Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 5.5 can mark up a fld containing almost 4000 lines, with a box round (at
> least) one word of each line, in 7 seconds.
>
> 7.0.1 takes 136 seconds to process the same field, and switches after a
> short while from using a LC-style "busy" cursor, to using the windows
> system busy cursor. Normally when I see that cursor in LC I'm expecting LC
> to hang or crash. The CPU is pegged at an average of 65% utilisation
> during this process.
>
> So, 7.0.1 is almost 20x slower than 5.5 for this operation.
>
> Bernard
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Using this kind of processing in a loop is extremely fast on 5.5:
>>
>> set the textstyle["box"] of char x to y of fld 1 to true
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7.0.1 it goes at a snail's pace.
>>
>>
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