Brian Milby wrote: > I'm going to be that guy who replies to himself... > > I just imported a 500kb image to the card, removed the text from the > field, created 300 cards. 0.756 seconds normal (171MB). 1.124 from a > variable. (image instead of text) 8.311 seconds normal (8.2MB). 0.047 > from a variable. (original text) > > I'll need to clean this up with a better image (something I can share) > and try on my Mac for comparison when I get off today, but this points > squarely at the serialization of the field object being the > difference.
Thanks for exploring this, Brian. It's mystifying how such generalized code could have such a pronounced impact on only one platform, but with your assistance I'm more confident we'll find it.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode