Re: Best practice for performance testing

2011-09-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Instead of writing to a file each time, write to a global variable, then write out the variable to a file at the end of processing. Bob On Sep 15, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > Hi, > > Ive got an application that quite happily runs along at an acceptable speed > on my Macs, but

Re: Best practice for performance testing

2011-09-15 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > Yes, the Windows spec is pretty similar to my slower macs, but the > performance is significantly different, for example adding a few items at > once takes a fraction of a second on the mac, but about 2 seconds on the > windows machine s

Re: Best practice for performance testing

2011-09-15 Thread Dar Scott
I don't know about best practice. Here are some thoughts. If I suspect some particular section of code, I bracket it with timing scripts. If your problem is on the order of 2 seconds, then you can call a handler before and a hander afterward. The first saves the long seconds and the second g

Re: Best practice for performance testing

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Kann
someone can speed it up for you. Mike --- On Thu, 9/15/11, Andrew Henshaw wrote: From: Andrew Henshaw Subject: Re: Best practice for performance testing To: "How to use LiveCode" Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 7:30 AM Thanks Roger, Yes,  the Windows spec is pretty si

Re: Best practice for performance testing

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks Roger, Yes, the Windows spec is pretty similar to my slower macs, but the performance is significantly different, for example adding a few items at once takes a fraction of a second on the mac, but about 2 seconds on the windows machine so Im sure there is a big code issue there, and

Re: Best practice for performance testing

2011-09-15 Thread Roger Eller
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > Hi, > > Ive got an application that quite happily runs along at an acceptable speed > on my Macs, but on Windows systems it seems to struggle. > > Im trying to pin down the parts of the code that I need to look at so I can > work out what i

Best practice for performance testing

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Hi, Ive got an application that quite happily runs along at an acceptable speed on my Macs, but on Windows systems it seems to struggle. Im trying to pin down the parts of the code that I need to look at so I can work out what is happening. My best guess would be the interaction with the sql