set the textstyle is dramatically slower on 7.0.1 than 5.5

[Bernard Devlin]

Hi Malte

Does the server version of LC have the ability to set styledText?  I've
never used it, so I'm not aware of its limitations. From my reading of that
forum post, it seems the preferred method is to create a sample
script/results which run on LC server.

Reading the contributions to that thread, I didn't see anything as bad as
this 20x slowdown between 5.5 and 7.0.1 .

I just did a test on 5.5 vs. 6.7 and there was very little difference in
terms of speed with regard to this method of setting styledText.


Regards,
Bernard

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de>
wrote:

> Hi Bernard,
>
> I am afraid 7.x is quite a bit slower in many places...
>
> see: http://forums.livecode.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=22072
>
> Most of this has to do with the rewrite of the engine I guess. Add the
> overhead for unicode... Boils down to I can not make the switch to 7.x just
> yet, before the dev team has found ways to optimize performance. If you
> find other areas where it is significantly slower, please do me a favour to
> set up a small benchmark and post it to the forums. The dev team and
> Richard as community manager are aware of that thread and as far as I
> understood actively looking into ways to optimize.
>
> All the best,
>
> Malte
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