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Fitnesse framework very slow when folder depth is greater 4 - why?

hi all, we are currently establishing fitnesse as the testing tool user acceptance testing. so far everything is good. we are using the java version "20091121". we are having troubles with folders that are deeper than 4. we have setup the following folder structure SetUp TestSuite content.txt + properties.xml (just "!cont...

Alternative Flex Compiler

Currently, as I'm sure most of you are aware, the Flex (EDIT: Flex 3) compiler is extraordinarily slow. It does however have an API. My question is: are there alternative (possibly C/C++ based) compilers that are faster than the current Adobe one? I realize compilers aren't something you can pump out in a few days, but if no alternat...

Linq Query slow on host but not on dev machine

I'm running ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 (With VS 2010 Beta 2) using Entity Framework. Earlier yesterday, for some unknown reason, a single page in my app started to load very slowly on my host. The problem is, this only occurs on my host and I haven't changed anything for it to load slow. Here is the action that is loading very slow: pub...

iphone-cocos2d: 0.9 & 0.8.2 slower than 0.7.1?

I have a code that set's a bow's angle according to where you have touched the screen. a simple "bow.rotation = X" command is performed on the ccTouchesMoved event. the problem is, that while running the code on 0.7.1 of cocos2d against 0.9 or 0.8.2 it worked way better, in 0.9 and 0.8.2 it seems like it skippes some of the touchesmove e...

How to Slow down the browser

I am trying to test my application performance in different browsers (specially ie6). Also I have ie8, ff and Chrome installed. I am using tool like ietester to see how my app looks in ie6. I am trying to find a way, as how my application will behave if the browser is relatively slow (keeping the bandwidth/network speed same.). Is ther...

sIFR 3 (r436) is loading terribly slow in Firefox (3.5.6) on Mac OSX

For some reason sIFR is taking FOREVER to load here (almost to the point of crashing the browser): http://www.pginvestor.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=104574&p=irol-news&nyo=1 This is only occurring in Firefox (3.5.6 on OSX) and seems to be an issue when there is loads of content (multiple links with hover, etc.). Similar pages do not hav...

why mysql queries takes table lock in isolation read uncommitted?

Is there any way to get mysql queries to not take any locks on myisam tables? My problem seems to be that my Sphinx Search indexer takes a lock on one of my myisam tables for over 60s which seem to make update statements wait on the locks to be released which in turn makes other queries wait for the update statements to complete. The i...

While loop causes the app to go slow? Any idea why??

Hi, I have a simple code that looks up a text file, reads the line of text, splits the string by semi-colons and then posts the results. After it has done this, I have created a really simple while loop to waste 10 seconds before going for it again.... here is the code: Private Sub checkTemps() While Abort = False Try ...

pg_connect takes longer than 5 seconds!?

Hello, I have just setup a OpenBSD little personal development server running PHP with an almost-default(enabled debugging messages) php.ini and installed PostgreSQL with the default configuration. Well, running this very simple code $starttimer=time()+microtime(); $dbconn = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=earlzblog_001 us...

.NET HttpWebRequest Speed versus Browser

I have a question regarding the performance of the .Net HttpWebRequest client (or WebClient, gives similar results). If I use HttpWebRequest to request an html page (in this case news.bbc.co.uk) and analyse the speed (using HttpAnalyzer) at which the response is read by the application, this is significantly slower than a browser (Firef...

iphone UIWebView Unicode Arabic Html Slow Rendering

Hello Guys, i use the UIWebView to load Arabic Html, using UTF8 Unicode, but the rendering is deadly slow, so is the scrolling. on the contrary when using English Html, everything works more reasonable. any advice on how to render unicode Html on the UIWebView?? Appreciate your Help! Thanks. ...

Wordpress site painfully slow...

Hi, What tools are there out there for determining why a site takes so long to load pages? I'm using a very simple theme that I changed to fit my needs, it's a brand new site with only two test posts and it takes a while to load. I used YSlow for Firebug and it gives the site a Grade A (90) so that doesn't really help. Is there anythi...

Please Help Me With Mysql Slow Query Analysis.

I have this mysql query that I am trying to analyze. It is very slow, the visitor table here is about 50K entries, this query never returns. When I tried an explain statement, I found out that the index is not being used on the visitor table, In spite of the index being available. Now this is the great puzzle I need help solving. Any hin...

C# Application Becomes Slow and Unresponsive as String in Multiline Textbox Grows

Hello. I have a C# application in which a LOT of information is being added to a Textbox for display to the user. Upon processing of the data, almost immediately, the application becomes very slow and unresponsive. This is how I am currently attempting to handle this: var saLines = textBox1.Lines; var saNewLines = saLines.Skip(...

Authenticode checking slows .NET build

In other posts, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618596/why-are-signed-assemblies-slow-to-load/2059410#2059410 it is shown how to avoid checking of signed assemblies when an app runs in a non- or slow-connected environment, by using the generatePublisherEvidence tag in the app's config file. Good for the app users, but what ab...

iphone landscape mode slow

The iphone app I am developing in landscape mode is seriously chugging. I put it in portrait for comparison and it appears to run much smoother in that orientation. I am not doing what I'd think is process intensive: a map view, some buttons, some labels, and some quartz drawing, yet some basic quartz animation seriously slows down rea...

Subsonic linq using activerecord very slow compared to simplerepository

Anyone know anything about why linq queries are about 6 times slower when querying using active record vs simplerepository? The below code runs 6 times slower than when i query the data using a simple repository. This code is executed 1000 times in a loop Thanks in advance string ret = ""; // if (plan == null) ...

Emacs is slow opening recent files!

When opening a file directly its fast, but when I open a recent file which is activated adding the following lines in my .emacs.: (require 'recentf) (recentf-mode 1) (setq recentf-max-menu-items 25) (global-set-key "\C-x\ \C-r" 'recentf-open-files) it takes around 2 seconds to open. Is this a normal behavior can I do something about ...

Slow MySQL Query Breaking my back!

so, I have tried everything I can think of, and can't get this query to happen in less than 3 seconds on my local server. I know the problem has to do with the OR referencing both the owner_id and the person_id. if I run one or the other it happens instantly, but together with an or I can't seem to make it work - I looked into rewriting ...

is there a way to change the jquery datatable filter behavior

with a moderm browser, the jquery datatable plugin works very well but in ie6 i find that its almost impossible to type in teh filter textbox as the keypress filtering is insanely slow so the browser can't keep up with your typing. is there anyway to change the behavior so that it only searches and filter on enter key compared to every ...