Go to card has become slow

[Richard Gaskin]

Neville Smythe wrote:
 > Richard wrote
 >> Bob Sneidar wrote:
 >>
 >>> In review, I tested saving stacks on a standalone Windows
 >>> Workstation, a VMWARE VM on a very robust server host, a
 >>> Parallels VM on a workstation and my Mac. As I am saving
 >>> the stack, I am watching the folder the stack is in. I see
 >>> the tilde version pop up and go away. On Mac it?s almost
 >>> instantaneous. On Windows it can be 3 to 4 seconds.
 >>
 >> My messages don't seem to be getting through, because each time this
 >> observation method of measuring write throughput comes up I post the
 >> same reply, yet it keeps coming up.  Please confirm if you can see
 >> this:
 >
 > Yes we see this. But as you know in 2018 I reported this slow saving
 > of stacks under Windows10, using LC timing of just the save handler
 > rather than the visual perception of the screen update, and it has
 > been confirmed as a bug.  bug 21305 <https://quality.livecode.com
 > /show_bug.cgi?id=21305> The time to save is extreme for large stacks.
 > It took some time for QualityControl to confirm, because apparently
 > it doesn’t seem happen on every Windows 10 installation - just every
 > one  that I or my users have tried. It has not been fixed since 2018.

Thank you for the link to that report, Nevile.  While I have been a 
subscriber to it I also follow many reports, so your link is very helpful.

I was eager to run the test stack there, but discovered there isn't one. 
  I don't mind creating one, but it would be helpful to know what's 
required.

Have you seen any difference between a stack with little content but a 
large number of objects vs one with a small number of objects but a lot 
of text or images?

Once I can reproduce the test, I'll modify it to isolate the time 
devoted to stack files separately from other file I/O for 
equivalently-sized files.

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