Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

[Mark Waddingham]

Most likely the time it takes to layout the text for display - 'typesetting' (the process that converts a styled string into a list of glyphs and positions) is a very complicated and time consuming process.

Mark.

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> On 20 Aug 2016, at 17:33, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:
>> 
>> LiveCode doesn't use what is generally referred to as 'garbage collection'
>> as it generally frees 'things' up as soon as they are no longer referenced.
> 
> 
> In that case, what are the several second pauses in the IDE, particularly
> the editor (versions 5 & 7, maybe others)
> 
> 
> 
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