I was working with a NI applications engineer on this problem but he was unable to duplicate the problem I was seeing. The only real difference between his system and mine was he had a solid state drive. So I purchased a SSD and now my editing is super-fast!
I tested this out with a huge edit (copying hundreds of items one time), and with my hard drive I had the hour glass for 63 seconds. The same exact test with the SSD did it in 3 seconds. Regular edits that used to cause a hourglass for a few seconds, now don’t at all. My large vi now edits like a small one. At this point I don’t know why the SSD made that big of a difference other than LabVIEW must be saving edits to the disk instead of RAM.
My system is:
Dell M6500 – Intel i7 quad core processor 8 GB Ram
ATI FirePro Graphics card
320GB hard drive 7200RPM OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 240GB
Windows 7 64-bit
Since my application does not use half of my CPU power or memory, my recommendation to others is to get SSD and skimp on the processor and memory if needed.
