But I would also appreciate a reply, maybe from Peter, which is of general interest to all of us.
Optimizing is one possibility, then the question about what would LC Builder accomplish, and then C++, if nothing else does the job fast enough? I am thinking about some optimisation algorithms which are already available in C++ and would probably execute not well enough in LCS. Roland On Sun, Mar 6, 2016, 23:10 Phil Davis <rev...@pdslabs.net> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > I would start by seeing if your LC code can be optimized so the time it > takes per screen is acceptable. There are many small changes a person > can sometimes make to code that causes dramatic speed increases. > > Or is the bulk of the time spent in areas LC can't address natively? > Maybe that's why you want to go toward an external. > > Thanks - > Phil Davis > > > On 3/6/16 1:55 PM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: > > Hello fellow LiveCoders, > > > > I need to write an external and it needs to be fast. It is for extracting > > images from a green screen. I wrote a good algorithm for this in > LiveCode, > > but it takes 20-30 seconds to handle all of the data processing. I want > to > > use C++ for speed advantages. > > > > I tried following the desktop externals tutorial that LiveCode uses, but > it > > seems that the external generator that LiveCode offers does not work > > properly with Visual Studio 2015. > > > > Should I try to find a free version of VS 2010? Should I try to fix the > C++ > > library files so that they work with VS 2015? Is there some other very > fast > > compiled language, like Fortran, that I should try? > > > > I welcome any advice on how to do this. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > > > -- > Phil Davis > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
