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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