RE: card-to-card speed

2016-12-07 Thread Ralph DiMola
Behalf Of Phil Davis Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 1:23 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: card-to-card speed Does "lock recent" before going next have any effect on the speed? It used to. Phil Davis On 12/7/16 8:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > A friend of mine has an app wh

Re: card-to-card speed

2016-12-07 Thread Phil Davis
Does "lock recent" before going next have any effect on the speed? It used to. Phil Davis On 12/7/16 8:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: A friend of mine has an app where some animations are done by flipping through cards. Speed is variable, set with a "wait milliseconds" statement, so the user

Re: card-to-card speed

2016-12-07 Thread Mark Talluto
> On Dec 7, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Have any of you seen unusual delay with "wait" statements in versions later > than v6? I have noticed that v7/8/9 are slower than 6 in almost every way. Strings are on par if not slightly faster in 8/9 when compared to 6. I have not cons

Re: card-to-card speed

2016-12-07 Thread Mike Bonner
On my system, testing with version 8, 1M loops (with and without a wait, and with 1 random(1000) call in each) it takes version 8, 283ms with wait, and 112ms without. Version 6 takes 157ms with and 51ms without. But this is with a million loops so for each loop, version difference only adds 0.00

card-to-card speed

2016-12-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
A friend of mine has an app where some animations are done by flipping through cards. Speed is variable, set with a "wait milliseconds" statement, so the user can view the sequence as quickly or slowly as desired. In versions up through 6.x the speed was quite good, but in v7, 8, and 9 the