On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:50:46PM +0100, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > For every letter I type in LyX, the updateMacros() function is called > from BufferView::processUpdateFlags(). > > What does this function do ? The only feature I see is that when > changing a math-macro, all uses of the macro are updated.
I think so, too. Stefan might have authorative answers, though. > Is it really necessary to do this always ? As it is in a "nearly hot > path" it took 44% of the time it took to process the insertion of a > character in the User's Guide. > > This function even takes longer when you have child documents as it > iterates through all child documents too. > > Maybe this is one of the reasons for all the bugs on slowness: > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5680 > > Do I miss something critical or is it ok to start cutting some paths ? I would expect that there cannot be much harm done outside math. Andre'
