Re: sorting/printing speed FMP9 vs. FMP6

On May 5, 3:09 pm, Martin Trautmann <t-...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 14:46:44 -0700 (PDT), d-42 wrote:
> >  Is this on a solution that was simply upgraded from FM6 to FM9?
> >  Or did you re-build and/or optimize the solution in FM9?
>
> It was rebuilt and optimized for FMP7.
>
> >  The architecture ****ft from FM6 to FM9 is huge. Solutions designed in
> >  FM6 often run miserably slow in later versions of FM.
>
> What kind of solutions?

Pretty much any big project suffered and needed to be rewritten or at
least selectively rewritten for FM7+.

> >  In my experience
> >  i find FM9  very fast, but you absolutely have to code for it.
>
> I don't have any clue how you would prefer to code different for those
> tasks. There's some garbage within by now - such as tem****ary scripts of
> some calculated fields. But none of those should cause a major slowdown.

You need to use the 'commit records' step in places where you didn't
need to use it before, for a trivial example. (I've seen looping
scripts that went from minutes to seconds with a couple well placed
commit records steps.)


....etc...

> All of this does not explain why sort and print are that slow.

When you say sort and print are 'slow'. What do you mean specifically?

You open up a file, and perform a basic sort on a single indexed field
in the table attached to the current layout, and its orders of
magnitude slower than it was on FM6? Under what conditions is sorting
so much slower?

> I feel that FMP7/8/9 was rewritten completely from scratch - loosing
> performance optimisation or basic functionality on several occasions.
> Some of this is justified somehow. Some should have become better
> instead of worse. Some is not essential for my needs and I'd prefer to
> be able to disable it (e.g. Asian language sup****t)

Agreed on some points. I don't really want to have to browse through
the Kanji date functions either. And would love to just hide that
whole category of features 99% of the time. :)

And its inevitable that FM9 uses more RAM and  resources, but that's
not a big deal... we have more RAM now than we did when FM6 was
current.

I haven't noted any 'basic functionality' taken out though. Please
elaborate.

when I evaluated 7 I had a ton of problems, performance was often
abysmall, and 7 had some killer bugs in it too. But I've been able to
fix all the areas that were slow, and overall I'm very happy with 9.

-cheers,
Dave