Revolution 2.1 IDE speed/performance issues - normal?

Andrew Heil heilandrew at attbi.com
Thu Sep 18 21:53:07 EDT 2003


Alex Rice wrote:

>Not normal! I use Rev on equivalent machines as you and it's very fast.
>The property inspector, script editor, app browser all open up in <= 1
>second. Compiled apps are quick as well.
>
>Mac G4/466 Mhz
>500 Mhz x86 laptop
>
>One possible gotcha to watch out for is that opening up or searching in
>the Documentation window in the Rev IDE uses significant amount of RAM.
>
>Other than that I have no ideas right now- sorry

RAM usage doesn't seem to be the issue, but every time Revolution opens up a
form, CPU usage spikes to 100%, then goes back down.  I wonder if QuickTime has
anything to do with it; Revolution loads 13 QT modules when it starts on this
computer.

Anyway, thanks for the reply.

- Andrew




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