Hey Tiemo,

what does the xSortListe function do? What is rather funny that my real life 
problem childs are also revolving around a live search feature. It might well 
be that your speed issues (as mine) are related to the sorting part (if you do 
a sort). My approach is a little diffrent than yours, as I do have numeric keys 
in the array (and as numeric keys are not in stable order in an array I have 
(had) to sort those on each keystroke). 

To be fair towards 7, I have refactored quite a bit of my own code over the 
past weeks and now have scenarios where the performance impact is far less 
dramatic than it used to be. I just got around to test this yesterday and now 
see a speed loss of the 7 engine of 7 to 15% which is somewhat acceptable (not 
good, but acceptable). I had to jump through quite some hoops to get there 
though. The only upside is that stuff got significantly faster also in 6.7 so 
my users would see a general performance boost regardless the engine. That is 
something I can sell. This is speaking for my own software though. If I am in 
control of the budget all it costs is my time to refactor existing stuff and 
most of the times refactoring is my friend, as generally the code base gets 
better. If I am on the other side of my programming life, namely coding for 
other customers, it gets a lot harder to sell them on refactoring a couple of 
100 stacks, just to get them to the same speed with the newer engine, without 
(many) other benefits. ROI isn’t that appealing / existent for them there.

That said, I guess we need more real life things where the 7 and 8 engine is 
slower to hand over to the team, so many thanks you sent your stacks. As Mark 
said, the „laboratory“ benchmark tests do not appear to help as much as I would 
have thought in the first place. On the other hand it is rather difficult to 
send over complete projects if they require additional requisites (like a 
Database, or even worse a complete server) to demonstrate the issues. I must 
say the team has been most helpful there, so I really hope for the best.

Cheers,

Malte



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