Livecode Server on Dreamhost fails in Ubuntu upgrade

[Richard Gaskin]

Warren Samples wrote:
> On 11/11/2014 12:42 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>> One thing I noticed is that script execution speed seems to have gotten
>> dreadfully slow in 64-bit 7.0 - roughly 6x slower.
>
> I have a simple script that repeats 5000 times, adding to a counter and
> populating and sorting a list with seven items. It takes just a little
> less than 4x as long to execute under LC 7 Server as it does under any
> previous version.

I submitted this hopeful but perhaps unlikely request not long ago:

64-bit build of v6.7
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13606

For many of us who don't need Unicode, 6.7 is a great solution.  Server 
environments are harsh mistresses, demanding that we cull every 
unnecessary clock cycle and k of RAM to maintain reasonable scalability.

6.7 delivers that for us, and will be increasingly useful as v8 adds 
radically powerful features with unknowable but anticipatable cost to 
both RAM and CPU time.

As Donald Knuth said, "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." 
  No expects a free ride with both new capabilities and trimmer, faster 
performance.

A 64-bit build of v6.7 would buy us time to move the platform forward 
with features and eventual optimization, while supporting 
mission-critical work where performance matters today.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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