"text" command runs slow when alignments with station labels are present.

[Anonymous]

I draw a couple alignments say, 2000 feet long and accepted standard default label styles which shows the major
stations.
I then ran one of my lisps that draws a bunch of text using (command "text"...)
It ran like 20 times slower that normal.
I tested this by having it draw 50 pieces of text in a loop:
(repeat 50 (command "text" "0,0" 4.0 0.0 "test text string"))

I then erased the alignments and it ran fast again.

I tried on default profile, no customization, same result.
Those alignment lablels are doing something when the text command is run.
I turned off the tooltips thinking it was trying to display them, and causing a lag.

I rewrote my code to use entmake and its fast now, but whats going on with the delay?
I'm just waiting for that to bite me on things that are drawn via (command...) in lisp.
thx
James Maeding
Civil Engineer and Programmer
jmaeding - at - hunsaker - dotcom