set the textstyle is dramatically slower on 7.0.1 than 5.5

[Bob Sneidar]

Do you lock the screen before doing something like this?

Bob S


> On Dec 31, 2014, at 02:28 , Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 5.5 can mark up a fld containing almost 4000 lines, with a box round (at
> least) one word of each line, in 7 seconds.
> 
> 7.0.1 takes 136 seconds to process the same field, and switches after a
> short while from using a LC-style "busy" cursor, to using the windows
> system busy cursor.  Normally when I see that cursor in LC I'm expecting LC
> to hang or crash.  The CPU is pegged at an average of 65% utilisation
> during this process.
> 
> So, 7.0.1 is almost 20x slower than 5.5 for this operation.
> 
> Bernard
> 
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Using this kind of processing in a loop is extremely fast on 5.5:
>> 
>> set the textstyle["box"] of char x to y of fld 1 to true
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 7.0.1 it goes at a snail's pace.
>> 
>> 
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