It would be interesting if lcb was slower, since it's supposed to be lower-level. The demo that Steven did, demonstrating the speed of populating a polyGrid (lcb widget) vs. a dataGrid (lcs group) was that it was much, much faster.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 5:58 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > LCB has been slower than LCS, but the advantage is that you can easily > link to much faster compiler code. I’m not sure if that has changed any… I > could pull out some code from a while back where we were doing some speed > tests. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Aug 30, 2022, at 5:31 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > Is there a page that discusses the pros of LCB? I looked and didn’t > find it. > > > > I’m thinking of a simple list (I’m making this up because I didn’t find > the page) > > > > — N times faster execution than LCS > > — interface with code libraries using simple hooks > > — bundle code and graphics together into widgets > > > > More? > > > > gc > > > >>> On Aug 28, 2022, at 11:27 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 8/28/22 11:06, Mike Kerner wrote: > >>> the lcb documentation, especially in the api widget is ungreat. > >>> the good news is that as long as there is an oss repo version of LC, > you can hunt for some of the information that is missing. AND, at least for > now, you can still find much of it in the LC application > >>> example: as i was hunting, i found a bunch of editors, but none of > them seem to be documented anywhere obvious. > >> > >> Yep - I find most of my documentation by digging. > >> > >> The lack of colornames just bit me earlier this week and I had to > backpedal and code a list of a dozen color names as "R,G,B". Even the > "#FFFFFF" format isn't accepted. > >> > >> -- > >> Mark Wieder > >> ahsoftw...@gmail.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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ 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
