Weird performance issue

[J. Landman Gay]

Are you familiar with the cardnames function? Letting the engine do it for 
you is always faster. That doesn't answer your question though.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On September 23, 2022 5:46:24 PM Geoff Canyon via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 11:08 AM Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> On 9/23/22 10:40, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
>> > 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?
>>
>> You also do a *lot* of work on both opening the stack and opening the
>> card. And looping through that many times in your test. Your loop test
>> doesn't really simulate real-world conditions for Navigator, so I don't
>> think I'd worry about it too much.
>>
>> --
>>   Mark Wieder
>>   ahsoftware at gmail.com
>
>
> Why would the stack be opened, or the card, just checking existence? And
> why would that happen each time rather than once?
>
> FYI for all tests the stacks are already open.
>
> And: Navigator until the version I'm working on now did exactly this when
> getting a list of the card names I have no idea why I coded it that way,
> but checking that method vs. getting the number of cards and then getting
> the names based on that was what let me to notice this.
>
> thanks!
>
> gc
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