Livecode performance problem

[Richard Gaskin]

Paul Dupuis wrote:

 > For strange legacy application reasons, when lines get added to the
 > set of fields (a frequency action by users - sometimes adding hundreds
 > of lines a day), the data has to be repackaged into this tab delimited
 > structure in a single variable to run some procedures on.
 >
 > So a user driven action of:
 >
 > 1) Add a line (or a few) to the fields
 > 2) repackage data and run a few procedures
 > 3) User repeats starting at step 1
 >
 > Can become very slow as the number of lines in the fields gets large
 > - as you all have noted!


I'd just bite the bullet and replace those columnar fields with one 
delimited field.

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