Félix-Antoine Bourbonnais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| In February, I wrote about my intention to code a patch to implement an
inline
| (on the fly) spellchecker for LyX (see bug 718).
|
| This is a preliminary version of the patch. There is still a lot of things
| missing but before I continue, I want your opinion and your advice.
|
| 1. My principal concern is about loading a document. It is slow (Very Slow!)
| because I'm checking every word in the document on the main thread (not in
| the background).
I don't think you should run the spellcker when loading a document.
| The next step for me will be to run the spellchecker in the background using
| multi-processing or multi-threading. Is there any problem to use pthreads in
| Windows ? Is there any other situation where LyX uses threads ?
So far there has been quite a bit of reluctancy to use threads, so I
think should be avoided.
(And if we are going to use threads boost.thread should be used.)
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Lgb
