Are versions LC 6 and LC 7 different from LC 8 in this regard?

All the best

Terry


> On 25 Apr 2016, at 15:57, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> wrote:
> 
> Running something you wish to introspect upon (accurately at least) will 
> pretty much always be slower than running something you don't wish to 
> introspect upon as there is a cost to supporting any sort of introspection. 
> (In this case it is the IDE doing introspection all the time as objects are 
> created, deleted and manipulated).
> 
> (Sort of analogous to a debug vs release build in machine-code compiled 
> languages - debug builds retain a 1-1 mapping between source and machine-code 
> which is usually substantially slower but understandable by a human; release 
> builds seriously mangle this mapping making introspecting on the running 
> executable with a debugger mostly un-understandable by a human).

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