Thank Craig for your suggestion about replacing the Preferences file. No luck.
I am down to going through line by line to find what process is taking so much time. I am now totally confused by finding that a handler which calls no handlers of mine, and simply has a repeat loop over just 32 short lines of text on each of which it does a matchChunk … takes 20 seconds! repeat with i=2 to the number of lines of indexList put line (i+1) of indexList into which put "(^[0-9-]*\t" & which & ")" into regX put false into found repeat with k=lastFound+1 to the number of lines of fff put matchChunk(line k of fff,regX,pos1,pos2) into found if found then exit repeat end repeat if found then put k into lastFound end if put lastFound into item i of mylineNumbers end repeat The same handler, same code, in a previous version of the offending stack, takes 0.06 seconds, both in the current 9.6.12 IDE, and using a standalone compiled under a previous LC version. I don’t understand how any of my code anywhere else in the stacks in use could affect the performance of an LC built-in matchChunk, which itself does not appear to have changed between versions (I certainly don’t redeclare matchChunk anywhere). I must be missing something. Neville Smythe _______________________________________________ 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
