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[Wilhelm Sanke]

On Wed Oct 7, 2009, Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com wrote:

> Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
> > I just - two minutes ago - mentioned you name and successful efforts  
> > on the Metacard list (subject "Standalone Builder").-
>
> > Building time for standalones can rise to  
> > several hours in the case of stacks with a larger number of  
> > controls. See also my two recent contributions to thread "Practical  
> > limits on object counts".
>
> I'm no longer involved in development for the nice folks in Scotland.  
> You will need to take up any issues with them now.
>
> Cheers


Monte,

I found the post of 5 years ago mentioning your valuable work in 
improving the Rev standalone-building process.

On Sept 20th, 2004,  I had written to the improve-revolution list:

> Subject: New troubles with standalone building and players for 
> multi-fields stacks
>
>  The tests described below were conducted on a Windows XP machine with 
> 2.5 GHz.
>
> The standalone build time for my 3300-fields teststack was down to 20 
> seconds when Monte Goulding had modified the standalone builder of 
> version 2.2B1 on March 5. With version 2.5R2 build time has again 
> reached an extreme length of 40 (forty) minutes. CPU use during the 
> build time is 100%. Build time with the Metacard Standalone Builder is 
> 1 second!

It would be nice if the nice folks in Scotland would take a look at your 
script.

I also sent another post to the improvement list today and added a new 
commentary to bug 2217.

Best regards,

Wilhelm Sanke