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Request: Array bug

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Zenith(Posted 2004) [#1]
My brother Josh has been working on a large Blitz Basic 3d product. I agree, this should NOT happen, here are his thoughts and petition:

The project is huge in size, an online game that's been in design for 2 years. The server is 25,000 lines of code, the client is 15,000 lines of code, and there are nearly 600 external files.
As his game has grown, he ran into a major bug that's ruining development.

Blitz arrays are taking ->forever<- to free. When I delete many types, with many arrays, the program will crash or take forever.

It should not take a full minute to free a couple meg of arrays. It should take .2 milliseconds.
This is a major problem, and im not the only one facing it.

The 2 year commercial project is breaking because of this bug.

Please fix the problem that is causing Blitz 3d to take so long to free arrays. It's a common problem that many people are complaining about on the boards, and it's rendering arrays useless.

It's sad when you go to Blitzcoder IRC for a work around, and the work around is to 'avoid using arrays'.


Everyone that has a problem with deleting your types that have large arrays, please sign this
petition for Mark to fix it as soon as possible!

Thanks.


Orca(Posted 2004) [#2]
I spoke with him(grem) about it, tested it, and I concur.

*signed*


Michael Reitzenstein(Posted 2004) [#3]
It made me not use blitz arrays in types. Signed.


N(Posted 2004) [#4]
Signed.


Eric Draven(Posted 2004) [#5]
Signed.


sswift(Posted 2004) [#6]
<sswift whistles innocently...>


Tracer(Posted 2004) [#7]
signed.

For one second there i thought you were requesting an array bug Zen ;)

Tracer


SopiSoft(Posted 2004) [#8]
For one second there i thought you were requesting an array bug Zen ;)


LOL, me too.....SIGNED


poopla(Posted 2004) [#9]
Lol swift. Sucks this isn't better documented, then people could avoid it. *COUGH*The docs suck*COUGH*


SoggyP(Posted 2004) [#10]
Hi Folks,

Signed by me too. Methinks poor Agamer is going to be burned by this thread.

Later,

Jes


sswift(Posted 2004) [#11]
"Lol swift."

Methinks you misinterpret my innocent whistle. :-)


Genexi2(Posted 2004) [#12]
*COUGH*The docs suck*COUGH*


Better a slightly true docs then none at all....

Anyway....*signed*..

*whistles along with Sswift nudging him at the same time to speak up*


Hotcakes(Posted 2004) [#13]
It's never been explained why they take so long exactly. SIGNED