Bernard: I didn't see the transition in Dr. Brett's discussion to be as black and white as your interpretation.
re: all the goodness of widgets and the javascript engine and the new "DSL" language enhancements seem to me to be far more significant than unicode. Agree 100%, and I am looking forward to the re-architected version (LC 8) so I can make significant changes to extend the LC base for my own purposes. Not because I need to do it, but just because LC provides the ability to do it ... and I like to play around with code. If you build it, they will come. Since the major complaints have been mostly related to Unicode, it's apparent that most everybody "out here" has been relating the performance issues to Unicode. Apparently all those references have been wrong. How did we ALL (or most of us) get to the point where we thought Unicode was the culprit? Dr. Brett's reference to "more fundamental" issues immediately followed his discussion of Unicode, so I interpreted that to mean the "/way values and variables are handled/" was also related to Unicode. I made this (possibly incorrect) subtle association because "values and variables" can themselves be Unicode. I reasoned that if Unicode wasn't involved, the impact of the "more fundamental" changes wouldn't have been so severe. In any case, we get back to my comment ... modified a bit to match your response: /I'm wondering how these LC language extensions that have had a major performance impact managed to get past the initial design stage, but that's a different issue altogether. Surely somebody, somewhere foresaw these "enhancements" would be a major resource hog./ It has been a while since LC7 hit the streets. Perhaps there were some warnings ahead of time that I didn't pay attention to, but I don't recall being "conditioned" to experience a significant performance hit. Does that mean they didn't know about those performance glitches until builders of *real* apps started using the new system? Or, was it a "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" scenario? TED -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC7-Unicode-tp4689927p4690266.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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
