Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ralph DiMola wrote: > +1 > > The mother ship has been all over this list and we all appreciate it! At one time an increased presence here by the core team was perhaps the most requested feature, now well executed. "RESOLVED-FIXED", in a major good way. :) > The best to the RR Team and the

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-22 Thread Mark Wieder
On 12/20/2015 11:02 AM, Jim Lambert wrote: Let me add to the litany of Livecode LTD’s amazingly accelerated pace in 2015 - the unprecedented number of posts by Mark Waddingham to this and the DEV list. Thank you, Mark, for your always insightful and much welcomed participation here. I'd

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-22 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I'd also like to point out that it's not just Mark, but also Ali, Panos, > Peter, Fraser, et al, have been very helpful on the lists and forums, and > your presence is much appreciated. > > Yes!!! Whilst the stats

RE: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-22 Thread Ralph DiMola
Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net Phone: 518-636-3998 Ex:11 Cell: 518-796-9332 -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of William Prothero Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 8:55 PM To: Use-livecode Use-livecode Subject: Re: Take a look back

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-22 Thread William Prothero
I’m really looking forward to being able to move to Vers 8 for my development and using some of the widgets. I’m not quite there yet, given the issues that still remain. However, it is great that the mothership team is on this list and responding to questions. I do think it’s been a great year

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-22 Thread Monte Goulding
Yes indeed, congratulations on a great year and I think we are all looking forward to a very interesting 2016. Enjoy your break! Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Dec 2015, at 6:02 am, Jim Lambert wrote: > > Let me add to the litany of Livecode LTD’s amazingly

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
Are you implying that Kevin is much more productive with a glass of scotch at hand? Bob S On Dec 18, 2015, at 15:03 , Richard Gaskin > wrote: > Nice to see that kilted Kevin has a glass of scotch close at hand

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-21 Thread Mark Wieder
On 12/21/2015 02:13 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Are you implying that Kevin is much more productive with a glass of scotch at hand? Why, yes... Aren't we all? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-20 Thread Jim Lambert
Let me add to the litany of Livecode LTD’s amazingly accelerated pace in 2015 - the unprecedented number of posts by Mark Waddingham to this and the DEV list. Thank you, Mark, for your always insightful and much welcomed participation here. Jim Lambert

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > On 12/18/2015 03:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Mark Wieder wrote: >> > Yeah, that's an impressive list. >> > >> > But "3.5x Faster" than what? >> > It's like those ads that feature "20% less fat" >> > >> > Nice to see that kilted Kevin has a glass of scotch close at

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-19 Thread Mark Wieder
On 12/19/2015 11:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: What opportunities do you see for streamlining file I/O? Looking at the file access benchmarks, there's a significant difference between LC6.7.8 and LC7/8. Test_FileBinRead: 1,14,14 Test_FileBinWrite: 2,80,78 Test_FileTextRead: 1,156,77

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > I'm dismayed that more attention hasn't yet been paid to improving > the file operations, but the speed of string operations has benefited > greatly from recent optimization. I've only recently cracked my copy of "Linux System Programming" so my ignorance has yet to be

Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread Steven Crighton
There was a lot of code written, and plenty tea to keep us fueled. Take a look back through 2015 here - https://livecode.com/our-2015/ Enjoy Happy Holidays everyone Steven ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread Colin Holgate
Do you get to 198 countries by counting Scotland and Edinburgh as their own countries? > On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Steven Crighton <steven.crigh...@livecode.com> > wrote: > > There was a lot of code written, and plenty tea to keep us fueled. > > > > Take

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Steven Crighton < steven.crigh...@livecode.com> wrote: > There was a lot of code written, and plenty tea to keep us fueled. > > Take a look back through 2015 here - https://livecode.com/our-2015/ That is a great post Steven! What a productive

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread EED-wp Email
to keep us fueled. > > > > Take a look back through 2015 here - https://livecode.com/our-2015/ > > > > Enjoy > > > > Happy Holidays everyone > > > > Steven > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > Yeah, that's an impressive list. > > But "3.5x Faster" than what? > It's like those ads that feature "20% less fat" > > Nice to see that kilted Kevin has a glass of scotch close at hand I dunno, the performance boost seems reasonably well reflected in my most recent

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread Mark Wieder
On 12/18/2015 03:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: > Yeah, that's an impressive list. > > But "3.5x Faster" than what? > It's like those ads that feature "20% less fat" > > Nice to see that kilted Kevin has a glass of scotch close at hand I dunno, the performance boost seems

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread [-hh]
> Mark Wie. wrote: > But "3.5x Faster" than what? > It's like those ads that feature "20% less fat" :-) But: If oldWeight is 3.5*newWeight then newWeight is 1/3.5 of oldWeight what is 71.43% less fat (or whatever). > Richard G. wrote: > I dunno, the performance boost seems reasonably well

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Steven Crighton < > steven.crighton at livecode.com> wrote: > >> There was a lot of code written, and plenty tea to keep us fueled. >> >> Take a look back through 2015 here - https://livecode.com/our-2015

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread Mark Wieder
On 12/18/2015 09:55 AM, Steven Crighton wrote: There was a lot of code written, and plenty tea to keep us fueled. Take a look back through 2015 here - https://livecode.com/our-2015/ Yeah, that's an impressive list. But "3.5x Faster" than what? It's like those ads that feature &qu

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread Mark Wieder
On 12/18/2015 06:02 PM, [-hh] wrote: [With equal weights one would have: The average factor of 7.0.1/8.0.0 is around 1.8 (that is "45% less fat" would be comparable) the average factor of 6.7.1/8.0.0 is around 0.2 (that is "500% more fat" would be comparable)] OK. If I stop being flippant

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread [-hh]
Accepted, of course. A lot of us can now better live with LC 8. [Because you are a LC big-cheese I thought more than 5 minutes about how you concluded from a factor of *3.5* speed increase to *20%* loss of fat . (By the way , the rounded result 0.2 gives of course a factor of 5=500%, that is an