More "really out there".
I like the idea of trying to speed up an upfront foreground load. Something
simple like this:
put blah-plah into IntoThisVariable.
where blah-blah is nana-nana or decompress( nana-nana )
where nana-nana is one of these:
URL ("binfile:" & ThisFile)
shell("cat " & ThisFile)
Function decompress() makes two RAM hits and requires control over the loaded
files.
> On Aug 4, 2019, at 12:47 PM, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> I love "really out there". I wanna play.
>
> At the start of any solution, try this. It might speed up any method but
> would take some time at the start.
>
> get shell( "cat " & ThisFile & " > dev/null" )
>
> I think that is likely to pre-load the system file buffers for you.
>
> If one is feeling adventurous, one can try open process (cat) to avoid the
> wait; it will probably move through the file faster than the script and
> sectors will already be loaded when you ask for them.
>
> Dar
>
>> On Aug 4, 2019, at 7:59 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> OK, here's a "really out there" suggestion ....
>>
>> 1. Run a local web server to serve files (locally only).
>>
>> Can be done various ways, including (easily) via LC and the httpd
>> library,
>>
>> (build that server as a standalone and have it running - started from
>> your app if need be...)
>>
>> 2. in your stack, just do
>>
>> load url ("http://localhost:8080/myfilename";) with message "mycallback"
>>
>> and handle the file once it has been read in the "mycallback" handler
>>
>> -- Alex.
>>
>>
>> On 04/08/2019 01:56, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble finding a combination of settings that allows my file
>>> loading to seem to happen in the background.
>>>
>>> repeat while read_result is not "eof"
>>> read from file ThisFile for (1024 * 1000) bytes
>>> put the result into read_result
>>> put it after IntoThisVariable
>>> add length(it) to amount_read
>>> TSTProgress amount_read,ExpectedSize,"%","Loading File ..."
>>> (Progress Indicator Handler)
>>> wait 10 milliseconds with messages
>>> end repeat
>>>
>>> no matter what I try, its still sluggish, and it seems like messages are
>>> still accumilating instead of being processed by the engine.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something? Normally waiting with messages sufficiently frees
>>> the engine to allow the UI to remain responsive.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tom
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