large arrays

[Fraser Gordon]

On 19 Sep 2014, at 12:46, <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I made a program some years ago with Rev studio 2.9 that had some very large arrays in it.  No problem.
> 
> Then I got Rev 3.5 and it choked on the large arrays - took forever to load and display in Variables.
> 
> Several years ago, I spoke to RunRev about it and they said they were going to resolve it.
> 
> I am using LC 6.1.1 (rc 4) and was just working with it on my old (large array) program.  I can hardly do anything because LC is SO sluggish. If I want to edit a script, it takes several seconds to display what I am typing - so it is extremely difficult to see what I'm doing.
> 
> Does anyone know of this issue and if it ever was fixed in some later version of LC?

We have completely re-written how arrays are handled internally in LiveCode 7 so you could give it a go in that and let us know how you get on.

Regards,
Fraser