On 5 Nov 1999, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> rope (the sgi::container) is the one that I had high expectations to,
> but it was buggy and I have to edit the system files to make it
> compile. Also it did not should a huge improvement.
Rope is supposed to be good for very long strings or buffers that are
created by linking together other smaller buffers. That's why I had
intended to investigate its use in file writing -- eg. acsii/latex export
and so on.
> For testing I made myself a test.lyx with a _HUGE_ single paragraph.
> (tens of pages). The char* version used 3! minuets to load this... the
> stl containers used less than 10 secs. The only place where I noticed
> that rope had any advantage was when testing copy/paste in this huge
> paragraph.
Did you try timing the loading of the User Guide?
Allan. (ARRae)
