Sorting text is *VERY* slow in LC9 on Windows (Re: Accumulating text is *VERY* slow in LC9 on Windows)

[J. Landman Gay]

You're talking about cheese. I'm telling Mom. Nyah.

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On September 10, 2021 8:42:48 AM Trevor DeVore via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 8:15 AM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2021-09-10 14:06, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
>> > The windows heap is much more prudent than UNIXy counterparts it would
>> > seem - where UNIX heaps will happily leave plenty of free space (which
>> > the heaps know about and thus can re-use), Windows appears to avoid
>> > that like the plague (which I'm sure is the case for lots of
>> > historical reasons and backwards compatibility). [ To give a very
>> > rough analogy, the map of used space in a heap on windows is like a
>> > block of cheddar; whereas on UNIXy systems it will be like a block of
>> > edam ].
>>
>> I of course meant 'Swiss', not 'Edam'!
>
>
> Thanks for the clarification. I feel like I have a decent understanding of
> cheeses, but I couldn’t figure out how cheddar and edam were different in
> this analogy :-)
>
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> Trevor DeVore
> ScreenSteps
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