On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 10:35:54AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 13/05/2019 à 07:11, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
> > Has the situation of Buffer::updateMacros improved in the last couple of
> > years? If not, would it be worth considering tracking whether a document
> > uses a macro? This way, users who do not use macros would not have the
> > performance hit?
> 
> I tried to improve the situation be removing a call to updateMacros, but
> this turned out to crash LyX. So the call is back. This macro systems scares
> me, but I am sure we can get rid of the quadratic loop in some way. I never
> really took the time to write things down though.
> 
> In any case, scary pieces of code should be on the top of the
> things-to-rewrite list, even though we want to stop thinking about them :)

Good to know.

> > By the way, I personally find LyX to be fast for my needs.
> 
> For me too. We could try to ask on the users' mailing list, maybe when 2.3.3
> is out (with the lbearing cache fix for windows) for stories about "LyX is
> slow for me".

True. Maybe after 2.4.0 would be a good time for that poll.

Scott

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