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Why is my VS2008 very slow at saving and renaming files

Windows Vista - using the following plugins - Codesmith and CodeKeep. I quess it started after installing the CodeSmith plugins .. ...

AVAudioPlayer - Drop in Framerate

Hi. I have a quick question: I am loading a mp3 file into a NSData object and then I play it using the AVAudioPlayer in my game. Every second or so, the frame rate drops and you can see a stuttering on the screen. It is not a major slowdown, but clearly noticeable and disrupting to the gameplay. Not playing the music track with the AVAu...

Why is IronPython startup time so slow?

I've been using IronPython for a while now, but something which really hampers my development with it is that it is excruciatingly slow to start up. I love the language and it's way of working, but it is frustrating to have to wait upqards of 20 seconds before it starts executing my code. I have done some digging and it seems to be th...

Loading of pages in IE very slow compared to other browsers

When I load the frontpage of the website I work for in IE it takes about 7 or 8 seconds to load fully (meaning, the "Waiting for" and "(x items remaining)" disappear and change to "Done". The exact same page takes about half the time in Firefox and Google Chrome, and I just can't figure out what's causing the difference. Is this just g...

FolderBrowserDialog takes eons to list the subfolders of a folder located in an USB drive

Using a FolderBrowserDialog in a USB Drive takes several minutes to offer subfolders (independently of how many subfolders are there). Whereas Windows Explorer does show them in a relatively quick manner. Code I'm using is: if (folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { //grab value } I navigate to the USB drive, and c...

How can I improve WMI performance in .NET?

I've inherited code that makes numerous remote WMI calls. When I repeatedly pause execution and look at the call-stack it's almost always in a ManagementScope.Connect() call. A new connection seems to be made with each WQL query. Despite limited trial and error, I haven't found any big wins yet in improving the performance of the WMI ...

Why is ODBC slow?

Why is ODBC slow? What is the underlying architecture? Can somebody throw more light on the same> ...

Turbo C 3.0 and lower versions were really using high CPU power?

I am using Turbo C 3.0 and Turbo c 2.0 for the programming. Added to this I am using Windows XP. While using Windows 98, the above said programs were really worked fine. But after installing XP, those programs were really slow-down my system. Those were really using high CPU power even when idle(idle refers to "no interaction between pro...

JS 1-2k variables make page load slow

On one page of my website the user has the ability to choose and remove up to 2000 items through selecting multiple string representations of them in a dropdown list. On page load, the objects are loaded onto the page from a previous session into 7 different drop-down lists. In the window.onload event, the function looping through the ...

IndexOf too slow on list. Faster solution?

Hello, I have generic list which must be a preserved order so I can retrieve the index of an object in the list. The problem is IndexOf is way too slow. If I comment the IndexOf out, the code runs fast as can be. Is there a better way, such as a preserved ordered hash list for c#? Thanks, Nate Edit - The order in which the items are a...

Long Application Startup times on WebSphere Application Server 6.1 FixPack 21

Hi, I'm seeing that my application startup times have grown long after I've migrated from WAS FixPack15 to FixPack 21. By application startup time, I mean the interval between the log statements : WSVR0200I: Starting application AND WSVR0221I: Application started This interval was less than 10 sec on FP 15, but it is 2 min on FP 21....

Slowdown (Scrollbar or UI in general) in Silverlight when there are many controls

I'm looking for some insight into the workings of Silverlight - at this time I suspect I need to know more about how UI event dispatching and control repainting are done to work out a solution or compromise for the following problem: I have a large number of elements (of which I am representing as controls) on screen. Numerically it's a...

Network tools that simulate slow network connection

I would like to visually evaluate web pages response time for several Internet connections types (DSL, Cable, T1, dial-up etc.) while my browser and web server are on the same LAN or even on the same machine. Are there any simple network tools or browser plug-ins that slow down network bandwidth to simulate different real-world connectio...

Jquery very slow in IE7

Summary jquery is used to retrieve search results via the get() call. When rendering the bulk of results there is no problem, but then when rendering part of the results, IE7 consistently hangs for 5-30 seconds before rendering. Problem The get() call in jquery successfully executes. There is no eval() or urlencode or decode on the da...

Reducing a large single page AJAX application (jQuery, ASP.net)

I'm currently building a single page AJAX application. It's a large "sign-up form" that's been built as a multi-step wizard with multiple branches and different verbiage based on what choices the user makes. At the end of the form is an editable review page. Once the user submits the form, it sends a rather large email to us, and a small...

jQuery - Are animations and jQuery scripts in general faster in IE?

My pages use jQuery and these are very fast in IE and Chrome. In Firefox 3 animations and other scripts are definitely slower, even if compared with IE6. I read that jQuery is optimized for IE. Is this the only reason? Are you experiencing similar problems? Thank you ...

Java TCP socket: data transfer is slow

I set up a server with a ServerSocket, connect to it with a client machine. They're directly networked through a switch and the ping time is <1ms. Now, I try to push a "lot" of data from the client to the server through the socket's output stream. It takes 23 minutes to transfer 0.6Gb. I can push a much larger file in seconds via scp...

Is it usual for ASPX files to take 5-10 seconds to save?

Using Visual Studio 2008 with Resharper, is it usual for ASPX files to take a long time to save? I usually find that it takes up to about 10 seconds on an average PC (18 months old). What is it doing? ...

My under development local drupal site become very slow, how to solve?

Hello, I am developing locally a site with drupal and suddenly it became very slow. The last thing I made was installing the internationalization module. Now when I try to reach administration panel I receive: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded... What to do now? Should I increase the maximum execution time...

Why does my animation go extremely slow upon resuming?

I have a jQuery animation that animates the 'scrollLeft' on a container to produce a kind of 'marquee' effect. I have it set up so on mouse-over of the container it stops the animation, and on mouse-leave, it resumes. $(banksContainer).mouseover(function() { $(banksContainer).stop(false); }); $(banksContainer).mouseleave(function(...