I usually test this by using put the milliseconds into tMs …loop code… put the milliseconds - tMs
This shows me a record of how long that loop took and helps me narrow down where the slow downs are occurring. You can do it within the loop too and keep a record for each iteration and see if it has a problem as it gets further down the list. But not likely with arrays. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 3 Mar 2022, at 06:53, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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 >> wait 0 with messages -- prevent ANRs >> end repeat >> I added the wait because my Android phone was putting up an "app not >> responding" warning while the loop was running (or just after, hard to >> tell.) The loop should be much faster than that. When I added some >> timing checks though, the timer says the loop takes between 0 and 1 >> millisecond, and yet the wait on screen remains. > > If the difference between `the milliseconds` before the loop, and then after > is 0 or 1 millisecond - then that is how long it is taking. This means the > issue is somewhere else. Are you sure there isn't anything you are doing > either before that loop or after that loop which doesn't wait for ages (due > to the ANRs you mentioned). > >> With a 3-word user list, the loop takes 4 seconds. With an 8 word user >> list the loop takes 6 seconds. The more user words, the longer the >> wait. > > If there are only 3 reasonable length words in pList (I.e. 3 lines) then > there's no way that loop can take 4 seconds. Of course if the words are > multiple megabytes long then it might be possible (however the timing you > already stated above suggests the loop isn't actually taking 4 seconds!). > >> Even stranger: on my cheapo Android tablet with 4 megs of RAM running >> Android 9 the response is nearly instantaneous, even if the user list >> has 200+ words. On my Pixel phone with 8 megs of RAM and Android 12 >> the response is slow enough to trigger the ANR with only 3 words. I'm >> building for ARM 64. > > This strongly suggests it is something else either on your phone, or in your > code which your phone doesn't like I think. > > Warmst Regards, > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
