10000 fields and crash

[sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de]

On  Sun, 05 Oct 2003 jbv <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr> wrote:

>J. Landman Gay :

>> MetaCard's Save menu command includes a "compact stack". That's 
>> what is probably taking the time. It should save much faster if you 
>> type "save this stack" into the message box.


>Just tried it : things get even worst : saving a stack with 2000 flds takes

15 min, when it took only 9 min with the Save menu...

My stack here with about 3,000 controls on one card (size 10 MB because a lot of
color information is stored in a number of arrays) takes 1 minute 10 seconds to
be saved on a Windows computer with 800 MHz and 256 MB RAM.

Regards,

Wilhelm Sanke