Is there a serious garbage collection problem

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Jun 23 00:10:17 EDT 2012


On 6/22/12 9:04 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> I haven't seen anything like this for several years.
>
> Is there a *serious* garbage collection problem with livecode?
>
> When I delete cards from my output stack, the response time is
> measured in seconds.  For a half dozen cards, it's long enough for me
> to get annoyed, and actually launch another program.
>
> There is also the occasional long delay from out of the blue during
> which the thing is completely non-responsive.


I've never seen this. I've deleted hundreds of cards in a repeat loop 
that took only a second or two. It sounds like something else is going 
on in the background. Are you deleting the cards by script? If so, have 
you tried locking messages?

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