All, Well I'm _really_ happy that someone (or many people as it turns out) are starting to look at the performance issues related to AbiWord. I could have sworn that I posted a commentary on 1) Document load times and 2) Excessive work that AbiWord does rendering the document, a long time ago. It looks like I didn't though. I would encourage anyone to just take their debugger and "walk" from main to the document display point. Doing this is a very educational (though somewhat time consuming) experience. Even at this level without profiling you can see that that are some really significant delays. The fact that we iterate over every character in the document at least three time doesn't help things I don't think. I'll hang out on irc.gnome.org #abiword this afternoon if people want to discuss stuff. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neutrino Development Group (613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf
