Cocoa Text is glacially slow compared to what it would be had Apple offered me the developer tools job I interviewed for in 2001.
Perhaps, when interviewing with the Xocde team, it might not have been a bad idea to avoid criticizing Xcode. I made it quite clear that I was unimpressed with Mac OS X in general, and to this day, I regard Mac OS System 8.1 as the very finest System Software release Apple has ever produced. Are you familiar with the term "Bozo Filter"? More or less, I won't accept a job offer, unless I can call my potential employer a jackass directly to his face - then have him agree that he is, in fact, a jackass. No doubt you expect that I am of very modest means. I was quite wealthy at one time, but my money did not do me a whole lot of good. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Michael Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At one time I found it quite painful to edit source code with Xcode. > I was told that was due to Xcode using the Cocoa text widget. > > Consider that Lightspeed C worked just fine, snappy and responsive, on > my 6 MHz 68000 Mac 512k (or was it 8 MHz). > > > I used Lightspeed C too. Its editor didn't support Unicode, or any languages > outside the basic Roman alphabet. That's a significant quality-of-life issue > for programmers whose first language isn't English. It also didn't do live > syntax checking or code folding. In fact it only supported monospaced > single-color text (no syntax highlighting.) > > The Cocoa text system compares to that editor, or MacWrite, the way > Photoshop compares to a crayon. And some of those features may seem like > nice-to-have frills to Americans (contextual forms, ligatures, bidirectional > layout, pop-up text input panels) but are must-haves for languages written > by the majority of the world's people. > > I'm sure that if we resurrected the Lightspeed C engine, it would let you > type at about ten million words-per-minute on today's computers. So what? > The editor only needs to be fast enough to keep up with human fingers. The > rest of the CPU time can be dedicated to extra features. > > Cocoa Text isn't slow. (And it wasn't slow on a Power Mac G3 back in the day > either.) One guy is having some nasty slowdowns that seem to be caused by > something incidental, not an intrinsic problem with the text system. > > --Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
