BTW you an also use this "split" trick to remove dupes (although you lose the
order of the word list):
function stripDupes pWordList
split pWordList by cr and tab
return (the keys of pWordList)
end stripDupes
on mouseUp
put stripDupes("test" & cr & "ball" & cr & "test" & cr & "orange")
end mouseUp
Result:
ball
orange
test
Not sure if it's faster, but it may work in your situation,
Ken
> On Mar 3, 2022, at 2:28 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/3/22 12:53 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
>> 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).
>
> Today I'm getting slightly faster results. Repeatedly creating new boards is
> not slowing down. Maybe some background processes were stopped (there was a
> system update last night.)
>
> The scoring handler does three things with the user word list, calling out to
> 3 different handlers:
> 1. Remove any duplicates
> 2. Check the dicionary for the remaining words
> 3. Walk the board for each word to ensure it's a legal path
>
> I just ran tests with LC 9.6.6 on a Pixel 5 that timed each callout
> independently. Times are in milliseconds. No words were longer than 4 letters.
>
> Dupes Dictionary Boardwalk word counts
> 12 1954 1404 -- 5 wds + 2 dupes, 2 illegals (total 9)
> 1 1934 2542 -- 9 wds, all legal
> 0 1960 1966 -- 7 wds + 2 illegals (total 9)
> 0 1921 1142 -- 4 wds, all legal
> 17 2015 8321 -- 30 wds + 1 dupe, 1 illegal (total 32)
>
> My recursive board walk could probably be optimized but for now I'm just
> focusing on the dictionary lookup. For reference, here is the whole handler:
>
> function checkDictionary pList -- plist is the user words
> repeat for each line l in pList
> if sDictFile[l] = true then put l & cr after tCheckedList
> else put l & cr after tNonWords
> wait 0 with messages -- prevent ANRs
> end repeat
> set wholematches to true
> put fld "wordList" into tWList -- no longer the same as pList since
> removeDupes has already run
> repeat for each line l in tNonWords -- mark non-words in list
> set the textcolor of line lineoffset(l,tWList) of fld "wordList" to "red"
> end repeat
> if tNonWords <> "" then put tNonWords into sStats["unknowns"] -- for later
> display
> return tCheckedList
> end checkDictionary
>
> I suppose the delay could be updating the field? But updating a field for 2
> or 3 entries shouldn't take too long, should it? Also note that in the 2 runs
> where there were no illegals, the timings didn't vary much. The checkDupes
> handler also colorizes duplicate words, which is why those 2 runs have longer
> times.
>
>> 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.
>
> When testing I don't have patience to think, so all words are usually 3-4
> letters each.
>
>
>>> 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.
>
> I have two Pixels, a 5 and a 6, and they both behave the same (slow) way,
> though the 6 has the new Tensor chip. Yesterday I was wondering if the delay
> isn't the calculations but rather the screen redraws. I have a lot of
> controls stacked up on the card, though many are not visible. However, I've
> run the handlers with the screen both locked and unlocked with no changes.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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