# Breaking apart large piece of text = HUGE slowdown !?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-apart-large-piece-of-text-huge-slowdown/71909>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 30, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-apart-large-piece-of-text-huge-slowdown/71909 "2004-11-30T16:51:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![RedSox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@RedSox](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RedSox)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-apart-large-piece-of-text-huge-slowdown/71909/1 "2004-11-30T16:51:04Z")

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This is so weird…I made textblock of 25 lines of text in Adobe Caslon type.  
I broke it all apart, turning each line into a movieclip and then turning each word into a nested clip.

Can’t do it any other way, cause I need to scroll the whole text through a mask and have some words fade out earlier than others.

But the problem is that the CPU usage in both MX 2004 and the standalone flash player is over 90% !!! The scrolling, without ANY code other than a simple mcText.tween("\_y", -500, 60, “linear”, 0) to move it up, makes it all look choppy!!

UpdateAfterEvent doesn’t make a different either (it’s as useless as usual).

Any advice/hints would be VERY much appreciated. My assignment is getting to run late like that ☹