WDSC6 Performance (was Opinions?)

John, I am seeing at least part of the problem.  I'm going to cross-post
this to WDSCI-L and see if we can't get some input from the team.

What I see is that V5.1.2.5 runs like a dream, with nary a hiccup.  On
my machine, editing a 3000 line file has no problems with block insert,
single-line insert, or scrolling.  I can hold my arrow down and smoothly
scroll through the entire document, with perhaps a rare, very short
pause.

On V6.0.0.1, while the cut/paste doesn't exhibit the same issues you are
seeing, scrolling and inserting have definitely suffered.  It's
intermittent, as well, which is really annoying.  Sometimes scrolling is
smooth, sometimes it pauses for nearly a second.  Inserting a line is
either instantaneous, or it takes 2-3 seconds per line inserted.
Sometimes a couple of undo's will make the insertion problem go away,
sometimes not.

Joe

> From: John Taylor
> 
> > > I'm not in the vicinity of my dual-core machine right now, so I
> > > just tested on a 2.8Ghz P4 with 1.5GB of RAM. My test was a simple

> > > cut/paste of about a dozen source lines. It runs the processor up
> > > to 70% for 2-3 seconds (duration of the paste operation), then
> > > falls back to idling at around 10%. Disk and memory are not
> > > affected in any measurable amount.
> > > 
> > > Any operation which requires the insert of one or more new lines
> > > in a source member exhibits this performance problem, otherwise
> > > it runs  well.
> >
> > I don't see ANYTHING like that, John.  I can paste 50 lines
> > of RPGLE code and it is instantaneous.  What version of WDSC
> > are you using?  And how big of a source member?
> 
> v6.0.0.1
> 
> The source member I'm testing with is 3000 lines long. As long as the
> source
> members are about 800 lines or less, everything is ok. Once I break
that
> 800
> mark, the performance gets progressively worse.