Slow LC 9 Performance - Test Stack, Video, QA Report

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Mon Sep 10 10:59:17 EDT 2018


That's the first thing I thought. Either everything is treated as a string until math is performed on it, or we have had a crude form of variable typing from the beginning and didn't know it. 

Bob S


> On Sep 7, 2018, at 20:56 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm suspicious enough of the sleight-of-hand that underpins the use of unquoted string literals not to trust the easy answers, and to think that under the hood in the engine everything at the script level is an MCString until necessarily converted internally for computation. And then back again.
> 
> But just guessing.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Wieder





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