On 14/07/2010, at 5:24 AM, David Swofford wrote:

> Ah... I see a difference, and it's very relevant.  My example has a lot of 
> hyphen characters in it (FWIW these represent gaps in a sequence alignment 
> and are typically common in these kinds of files).  Your example was all 
> letters.  When I substitute all of the gaps in my example to letters, 
> TextEdit no longer has this slowdown.  It never occurred to me that this 
> would matter.
> 
> I'm guessing that it has something to do with line/word wrapping, and will 
> explore further.


Also, you may need to turn off all the hyphenation processing, since the 
presence of hyphens in the text will trigger various layout changes that you 
can probably suppress in your case.

--Graham


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