Re: Replacetext taking forever under 8.1.7

2017-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 11/29/2017 12:30 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: I downloaded 8.1.2 and performed the same test as above and the difference was substantial. I’m on a different machine, but the times appear consistent with the test I did on 7.x on the other one. https://github.com/livecode/livecode/p

Re: Replacetext taking forever under 8.1.7

2017-11-29 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
I downloaded 8.1.2 and performed the same test as above and the difference was substantial. I’m on a different machine, but the times appear consistent with the test I did on 7.x on the other one. On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:49 AM Thierry Douez via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote

Re: Replacetext taking forever under 8.1.7

2017-11-28 Thread Thierry Douez via use-livecode
2017-11-23 21:27 GMT+01:00 Bruce Pokras via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > put replacetext(holdIt1,"[ ]{2,10}",empty) into holdIt > > Under 8.1.7 I get the dreaded spinning beachball, although the replacetext > action eventually finishes (after 20 minutes), and the script then

Re: Replacetext taking forever under 8.1.7

2017-11-27 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Just tried this snip: *-- revidelibrary.8.livecodescript full path in the text field**put* url ( "file:" & the text of field "fileName") into holdIt1 *put* the milliseconds into tStart *put* replacetext(holdIt1,"[ ]{2,10}",empty) into holdIt *put* the milliseconds into tEnd *put* cr & tEnd - tSta

Re: Replacetext taking forever under 8.1.7

2017-11-27 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi Bruce, If the same code snippet takes 20 mins in 8.1.7 and 1 second in 7.1.4, this is definitely a bug. Please do file a report in quality.livecode.com, and make sure you attach a simple sample stack that demonstrates the problem for you. Regression bugs have higher priority, so I would expect