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

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Yes, it did mention cheese... but it was entirely on topic and about LiveCode. (How could Mom not approve.)
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> On Sep 10, 2021, at 11:15 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> You're talking about cheese. I'm telling Mom. Nyah.
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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> On September 10, 2021 8:42:48 AM Trevor DeVore via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 8:15 AM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
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