Weird performance issue

[J. Landman Gay]

It may be related to the size of the stack. LC would have to load it all 
into memory before checking the cards. Also, do the results change if you 
lock messages?
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On September 22, 2022 3:01:48 PM Geoff Canyon via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I was testing something for Navigator and found the following:
>
> put the long seconds into T
> repeat 10000
>      get there is a card 1 of stack "untitled 1"
>      --get there is a card 1 of stack "revnavigator"
> end repeat
> put the long seconds - T into T
> put T
> -- puts 0.005 or so
>
> put the long seconds into T
> repeat 10000
>      --get there is a card 1 of stack "untitled 1"
>      get there is a card 1 of stack "revnavigator"
> end repeat
> put the long seconds - T into T
> put T
> -- puts 1.2
>
> Why in the world would it take over 200x as long to identify that there is
> a card 1 of Navigator vs. a random stack I just created?
>
> I just checked and:
> stack "message" -- over 3 seconds -- a second run was 0.4
> stack "revdictionary" -- 1.5 seconds
> stack "home" -- 0.02 seconds
>
> I ran it across everything in the environment and got results from under a
> hundredth of a second to over a second, with stacks pretty smoothly across
> that range. No clue what's causing it.
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