Hi William,
Use variables instead of fields when at all possible.
You will find that your executable code will pick up
in speed.
If you are just afraid users will think the stack has
crashed, use a progress bar to tell them when everything
has finished loading. For some weird reason progress bar
curious how you're going from an 80mb stack to an 8mb standalone. In any
case, likely you should change it so you only load content when you need it.
If you have any openstack, preopenstack, opencard, preopencard handlers,
throw some diagnostics in them to keep track of time as they execute, to
fi