Refactoring is your friend / moving from 6.x to 9.x

[Andre Alves Garzia]

Malte,

So happy that you're back here my friend. I too spent some time away.

So, refactoring and constantly trying to erase mistakes of my past 
coding self are a constant here. I wish we had better refactoring tools 
so that we could rename a handler and all code that called that handler 
was fixed, or stuff such as rename variable...

Cheers

andre

On 30/12/2018 19:33, Malte Pfaff-Brill via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I finally found the time to test / move one of my old projects from the 6.x (started in 3.x) to the 9.x engine. At first I was very very disappointed about performance. The stack was somewhat between acceptable and snappy in the 6.x engine series, rather unusable on 8 and on 9. This basically led to so much frustration that I basically gave up on the project, coding and LiveCode as a whole.
>
> I had a bit of time on my own during the holidays, so I started to analyse where the slowdowns actually happened. It seems I do owe the 9.x engine an apology, expecting everything to work as it used to in 6 is not the way I should have gone. After a refactor of my scripts I am now sitting with a version of my stack that works faster as it did in 5.x / 6.x.
>
> General and fixable observations:
>
> The IDE spams a lot of IDE only messages when creating many objects by script -> remedy: Lock messages
> Nested Lock screens are a big "NO-NO“ nowadays
> You can not rely on the screen being unlocked immediately at the end of a handler
>
> Not yet fixable for me:
> Array operations on larger data sets still slower than they were
>
> Non engine related:
> My SQL-Fu has improved a bit ;-) Quite a bit of performance to gain there.
>
> Did anybody of you happen to refactor old code and if so, do you have any observations you might want to share?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malte
>
>
>
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