Benchmarking 7.0 performance

[Richmond]

On 10/28/2014 02:28 PM, Tim Selander wrote:
> I don't know about benchmark on routines, but I have created a measly 
> 10MB file -- customer database -- and saving changes to the file takes 
> a full 10 seconds or more. That seems pretty slow to me. Duplicating 
> the file in Finder takes a fraction of a second. Saving an edited 10MB 
> .wav audio file takes a fraction of a second.
>
> Why is saving the stack so slow? This is going to be a real pain for 
> my data entry lady who is used to HC saving everything automatically 
> and invisibly....

Possibly you need to be kind to your data entry lady and build an 
autosave routine into your stack.

Richmond.

>
> OSX, MacBook Pro i7, 1TB internal HD.
>
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
>
>
> On 10/27/14, 10:44 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>> I'm wondering if anyone has benchmarked 7.0 performance? I did two quick
>> tests and found:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>     put the long seconds into T
>>     repeat with i = 1 to 20000000
>>        put "A" && "aa" into X
>>     end repeat
>>     put the long seconds - T
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> Took almost 5x as long to run as on 6.7, which I expected since it's
>> presumably doing UTF things under the hood.
>>
>> But I also found:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>     put the long seconds into T
>>     repeat with i = 1 to 20000000
>>
>>     end repeat
>>     put the long seconds - T
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> Took about 1.5x as long to run on 7.0 as on 6.7. Obviously our own 
>> code is
>> still a much larger factor -- "repeat for each" in 7.0 is still going to
>> handily beat "repeat with" in 6.7 for processing large chunks of 
>> text, etc.
>>
>> gc
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