Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-03-02 21:57, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: The loop takes forever. Here it is (sDictFile is a script local): repeat for each line l in pList -- pList is the user word list if sDictFile[l] = true then put l & cr after tCheckedList else put l & cr after tNonWords wai

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 3/2/22 11:41 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Jacque wrote: > so I'm not really looping through the keys, just looking for > a matching one. The loop is for each user word I need to find. > If there's no key, then the word isn't legal. What is the ratio of keys whose values are

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 3/2/22 8:14 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: That sounds like a memory leak! I was thinking the same thing, but you'd think it would leak on my old tablet too, the one with far less memory. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Jacque wrote: > so I'm not really looping through the keys, just looking for > a matching one. The loop is for each user word I need to find. > If there's no key, then the word isn't legal. What is the ratio of keys whose values are "true" and those which are "false"? And what is the ratio of

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
I did not know about filter! I think I am cured of my “among” disease. .Jerry > On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:29 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > > I ran into this when doing mobile predictive typing for US cities(40,000) > with a scrollable dropdown of results. I did with a loop in JavaScri

RE: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
I ran into this when doing mobile predictive typing for US cities(40,000) with a scrollable dropdown of results. I did with a loop in JavaScript in html and was instantly fast. So in LC IDE I started with the loop thing and it was too slow. There was a 3/4 of a second blip as each character was typ

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
That does make sense and now I understand the problem. > On Mar 2, 2022, at 6:19 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Actually, this is what I do: > > if sDictFile[L] = true then... > > which I thought would be pretty fast since it's accessing the array directly. > The array lo

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 3/2/22 6:40 PM, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: Did it ever work as expected, or has it always behaved this way on all devices? (If it ever did work right, I guess that points to a change that happened outside your code.) I'm trying to remember. I've mostly been testing on my tablet where

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 3/2/22 7:44 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: Instead of putting the keys into tCorrWdList and using “among the lines of tCorrWdList", how about using “among the keys of tCorrWdList”? Judging from no knowledge of the internals but guessing what it must do: “among the lines” has to look

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
It could also be the garbage collection cycle isn’t working right. > On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:52 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > I noticed today though that there's a more general slowdown overall. When I > first launch the app it takes only a second to set up the board display. I

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
That sounds like a memory leak! > On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:52 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > I noticed today though that there's a more general slowdown overall. When I > first launch the app it takes only a second to set up the board display. If I > keep hitting the "new board"

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
A few years ago I found that 0.1 milliseconds was faster for some crazy reason. Maybe that bug finally got fixed? > On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:40 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > It gets slower. :( ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecod

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
Arrgh. Try again. “among the keys of C” instead of the keys of tCorrWdList like I wrote. I’ll quit now. .Jerry > On Mar 2, 2022, at 5:44 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode > wrote: > > Now that I’m thinking more directly, I’ll try again: > > Instead of putting the keys OF C into tCorrWdList a

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
Now that I’m thinking more directly, I’ll try again: Instead of putting the keys into tCorrWdList and using “among the lines of tCorrWdList", how about using “among the keys of tCorrWdList”? Judging from no knowledge of the internals but guessing what it must do: “among the lines” has to look f

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 3/2/22 6:32 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: Eon’s ago I had a similar problem in Fortran. My solution was to break up my huge array into 3 smaller alphabetical arrays. I had to first determine with some if statements which of the 3 arrays I had to search. The solution turned a gla

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
Jacque - Did it ever work as expected, or has it always behaved this way on all devices? (If it ever did work right, I guess that points to a change that happened outside your code.) Phil Davis On 3/2/22 4:35 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 3/2/22 5:12 PM, Devin Asay via use-

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 3/2/22 5:06 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: What happens if you wait longer than 0? It gets slower. :( -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com __

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 3/2/22 6:19 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: Could using “is among the keys of sDictFile” instead of the loop be another advantage? I need to loop through all the user words, checking each one against the dictionary. I.e. the loop is going through a short list of user entries, not

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 3/2/22 5:12 PM, Devin Asay via use-livecode wrote: Have you tried put the keys of sDictFile into tCorrWdList repeat for each line I in pList if I is among the lines of tCorrWdList then put I & cr after tCheckedList else put I & cr after tNonWords end if end repeat

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Eon’s ago I had a similar problem in Fortran. My solution was to break up my huge array into 3 smaller alphabetical arrays. I had to first determine with some if statements which of the 3 arrays I had to search. The solution turned a glacially slow search into a very acceptable one. You may wan

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
Could using “is among the keys of sDictFile” instead of the loop be another advantage? .Jerry > On Mar 2, 2022, at 3:12 PM, Devin Asay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Jacque, > > Have you tried > > put the keys of sDictFile into tCorrWdList > repeat for each line I in pList > if I is among t

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Devin Asay via use-livecode
Jacque, Have you tried put the keys of sDictFile into tCorrWdList repeat for each line I in pList if I is among the lines of tCorrWdList then put I & cr after tCheckedList else put I & cr after tNonWords end if end repeat I just wonder if there is some overhead with checking

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
What happens if you wait longer than 0? Rick > On Mar 2, 2022, at 4:57 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > In my Boggle game I have an array containing dictionary words as keys, split > as set, so all values are "true". I need to compare those keys with a list of > user words an

Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
In my Boggle game I have an array containing dictionary words as keys, split as set, so all values are "true". I need to compare those keys with a list of user words and get back a list of good words and a list of illegal words. The loop takes forever. Here it is (sDictFile is a script local):

Re: RIP David Boggs

2022-03-02 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
The quote, for those struggling with browsers and paywalls. I was able to see it in a Tor browser: Before becoming the dominant networking protocol, Ethernet was challenged by several other technologies. In the early 1980s, Mr. Metcalfe said, when Mr. Boggs took the stage at a Californi

Re: Have we lost the Oracle driver?

2022-03-02 Thread panagiotis m via use-livecode
Hello Ben, I take it you are on MacOS? Which MacOS version, and which LiveCode version are you using? Could it be the case you haven't got the right version of Oracle Instant Client installed? You need libclntsh.dylib.11.1, found here: https://download.oracle.com/otn/mac/instantclient/11204/inst