On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:09 +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > That's part of the story. Another part is that a long long time ago, I > > tried to implement a thing called Update::SinglePar. The idea was that, as > > long as a paragraph's metrics don't change, you can type into it and _only > > it_ will be updated. > > Ok. Note that I was referring only to the fact that short paragraphs seemed > to be faster, even if the same amout of text was onscreen. > But I agree with you in that clean self-contained optimizations are the way > out. > > > > That's the theory. Unfortunately, what is in CVS doesn't actually do this. > > Still the whole screen gets updated, always, with rebreaking for every > > paragraph. The singlepar code in metrics isn't actually used. My bad. > > Ah ok. > > > I tried the following modification, to make this stuff (1) work, and (2) > > work correctly as intended: > > > Sounds reasonable? Please test. Is it faster, or is it my imagination? > > I'll get around to test it eventually ;-) Lately I'm slooooower than the qt > frontend. > > Alfredo
Do you see the slowness in measurable form? I think it's really the Mac people that should test this. - Martin
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