LC 8 speed advantages??

[Monte Goulding]

I'm sure the team would be keen to look at the code if you can post an issue and attach it.

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> On 8 May 2016, at 7:52 AM, Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com> wrote:
> 
> "LiveCode 8 is on average 3.5 times faster than LiveCode 7"
> 
> I was very interested to see this claim as I had been hoping for better
> speeds in a text manipulation app I wrote.
> 
> After building a standalone with LC 8, I ran the same test file in the new
> LC8 standalone as a version I compiled in LC7.
> 
> In LC7, the standalone processed the text file in 28 seconds. In the "much
> faster" LC8 version, the file took 38 seconds! What's up with that?
> This program only uses text manipulation—no graphics work at all—so it
> should have shown a substantial speed up, according to this quote on the LC
> website: "In LiveCode 8 we’ve completely rewritten our low level string and
> binary implementations for speed and performance."
> 
> Needless to say, I was very surprised at this result. Has anyone seen
> similar (or contrary) results with text manipulation?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Howard Bornstein
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