Re: Proposed LyXFunc reworking

[John Levon]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote:

> No. I am not. First of all I mentiond the existence of a constant factor
> and second, it does not matter. Even if the factor was 1000.
> 
> How many lyx-functions are called per second? 1000? Likely less.
> Now, how long take 1000 string lookups in a map with 100 entries? 
> Relate this to the work done by a complete table-redraw.

make that 250+ entries, but yes, maybe it's OK performance-wise (although
picking something as slow as table redraw is cheating :)

> Code decoupling. LyX still takes ages to compile even after tiny changes.

I'd rather wait longer and have less bugs ;)

> Why not? Most larger apps come with dynamically lodable modules.
> I don't see any reason e.g. to carry all SGML stuff in a monolithic binary
> if I don't need it most of the time.

yep OK.

> The creation date of the lyxfunc? You lost me.

see the user names and dates in commandtags.h

john

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