copying large string from clipboard is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

[Tom Glod]

Hi Richard...to copy it from a custom property into a variable takes a
blink of an eye.

the file is i think 4.5 mb or so.

takes 14ms seconds to do a md5 hash

its definitely the slowness of the clipboarddata function.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Tom Glod wrote:
>
> > Hey Peeps... so I'm stress testing a clipboard tool I have been
> > working on .....and copying a large key from the clipboard array into
> > a variable (such as the king james bible from the guttenberg project)
> > takes a really long time.
>
> What is the size? It's been a long time since I worked with that file.
>
>
> > like 3 or 4 seconds ....(for each key)
> >
> > its a large string...but thats crazy.
> >
> > I'm copying from "the clipboarddata" ... not rawdata or fulldata.
> >
> > should i report bug? or is there a legit reason why this is so?
>
> Depends.  That's a very rare use case, one not likely optimized for by
> many apps, or even the OS.
>
> So one way to get a feel for whether LC is indeed slow there is to compare
> with another program:
>
> How long does it take to copy with the file is opened in Word?
> And from WordPad?
> Might also get comparisons with any other program you have lying around
> that can be used for that.
>
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