Livecode's appetite

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Jim,

Check pendingmessages, "send in time" commands, repeat loops with messages, blinking cursor and, last but not least, default buttons.

If I create a standalone without any of this, it usually gets below 3% most of the time. Still, much more than most other apps and problematic if you decide to run 10 standalones at the same time (something which isn't a problem at all if you use apps created with XCode).

While I'm writing this, Color Converter (made with LiveCode) shows a CPU usage of 0.0%, which proves that it is possible to make apps that don't eat up CPU time while running in the background.

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On 13 nov 2012, at 16:41, Jim Hurley wrote:

> I just happened to notice Livecode's CPU appetite,--as reported in the Activity Monitor. It is takes up 6.7% of the CPU available usage, even while I am using MS Word.
> 
> On the other hand, Excel is using only .2% 
> 
> There is probably a good reason for LC's appetite.
> 
> Jim