J. Landman Gay wrote: > The project I've been on lately has hundreds of stacks and thousands > of support files with gigabytes of data, they're just not all in > the main app. It's easier that way. The app itself takes under 15 > seconds to compile.
That's a good strategy for many reasons, but I still believe compiling any standalone, even a complex one, should never take more than a minute.
At the heart of the build process for the desktop all that's happening is the mainstack file is bound to a copy of the runtime engine, which by itself takes about a quarter-second. Depending on your settings there may be other steps, like moving stacks in or out of the standalone file, clearing a few custom props, etc., but 15 minutes is a looooooooooong time for a tool famous for offering zero-compile-time.
I've run code base analytics on fairly complex stacks, and the worst of them took less than a minute. Perhaps what LC is doing is even more complex, but given the speed with which LC can traverse objects and parse text I'm fairly confident what we're seeing here is a bug, likely from some redundant script analysis.
Let's look at the worst cases first: If any of you have stacks that take longer than 5 minutes to build a desktop standalone, and you're in a position to share the stack with RunRev's support team so they can figure out why it takes so long, please open a bug report against this so we can find out what's going on.
Even better: if anyone here has some time on their hands and is up for a challenge, it may be worthwhile poking around in the Standalone Builder scripts to see if you can find where the bottleneck lies.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
