On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, tim Rowledge wrote:

> The most recent nuScratch beta for the Pi takes a very long time to start up, which is the focus of my work today.
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> A moment’s profiling shows that processing the 50 language data files (they’re ‘pootle’ files, apparently) is taking ~27secs on my Pi. ACtually, for 50 files that seemed quite plausible until I checked the old Scratch image- 621mSec. Same files and actually a significantly slower VM. Hmm.
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> 97% of the slow time was in MultiByteFileStream>contentsOfEntireFile, with half spent in #next. By contrast, deliberately using a StandardFileStream took just 300mS. Of course, that means having to manually handle the potential unicode transformations, which is going to be fun.

What encoding do those files have?


Levente

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> Since MultiByteFileStream is the default (see FileStream concreteStream) this may well mean that a lot of time is being wasted when generally loading files. Does MC rely upon the default, for example?
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> tim
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> Useful random insult:- Can't program his way out of a for-loop.
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