stephen barncard wrote:

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

What is nohwcap, and why would the engine keep looking for it
over and over after it's already been told it isn't there?

and could that be an element of the slow engine loading problem?

It'll probably help to clean up the engine init (and thankfully Peter B. at RunRev noted in the forums that font init is already being investigated), but both the numerous font init calls and the nohwcap calls are present in bpth 6.7and 7.0. So while it'll make things faster, it isn't unique to v7.

On the other hand, we don't have the opportunity to test Dreamhost's Ubuntu 12.04 LTS upgrade with a 32-bit LiveCode engine, so we can't rule out that those calls may exacerbate something unique to Dreamhost's configuration.

Either way, cleaning up init will give everyone a boost on all systems, and if RunRev can also bring up internal engine operations to the performance level of v6.7 (chunk expressions, arrays, file I/O, etc.) we may well have the fastest version of LiveCode we've ever had, with CGIs running better than ever before.

--
 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Systems
 LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

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