IDE performance (Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition)

[Bob Sneidar]

Yes, and this is really disconcerting. Not sure how many Mac vs. PC devs there are for LC, but I suspect it's weighed heavily towards Mac. I think in retrospect, it may have been better to retain UTF-8 as an option, that is be able to select unicode or not in an app. But I suspect that would be a lot of bloat in the IDE. 

Bob S


> On Sep 7, 2021, at 12:55 , Andre Garzia via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> to be honest, the IDE on Windows has been so bad for me that it caused me to switch back to a mac...
> 
>> On 7 Sep 2021, at 09:00, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> I was wondering this too: when Lagi mentioned 'fix the IDE' I thought this might be a reference to some of a number of usabiity snags - it didn't occur to me that it was just speed.
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>> I develop on a nine-year old MacBook and have never noticed a speed issue with the IDE. I wonder if it's possible that the Windows IDE has been affected by the same issue to do with manipulating quantities of text that I've been talking about on the list, which Mark W has suggested might be fixed in a release very shortly? (Seems unlikely!) But definitely seems to be something platform specific.
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>> Lagi, if you're still able to access a 6.7 installer, could you confirm whether the IDE under 6.7 has the same problem on your set up? The problems with speed on Windows that I'm seeing came in after 6.7.
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>> Ben