Don't know if it's still the case, but a version or 2 ago the default for Soft Wrap Text made a huge difference to the speed of BBEdit opening large files.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Thomas Mai <[email protected]>wrote: > Became curious – had to try that by myself... > For testing I used a 129 MB SQL-Dump on my new 3.5 GHz i7 iMac with 32 GB > RAM, Fusion Drive and Mavericks. > > BBEdit: > ~2 sec to open, smooth scrolling, everything's fine. Fantastic! Could > hardly believe that. > > Textmate 2: > ~12 sec to open, smooth scrolling, pausing when resizing the window, > syntax highlighting was fast on the first 100.000 lines or so, but then > took minutes for the rest of the file. > > Textmate 1: > Almost the same as TM 2, but beach ball for many seconds when jumping > around via "Go to line" > > Coda 2: > ~15 sec to open, no syntax highlighting, every scrolling showed the beach > ball, unusable > > PhpStorm 7.1: > "Too large" message and that's it. > > Sublime Text 2: > ~1,5 min to load, but then super fast and responsive incl. syntax > highlighting and minimap > > > Another test with ~100 K HTML Code: > BBEdit: Super fast! > Textmate: Syntax highlighting needs some time... > Sublime: ~3 sec to load, but then really fast > Coda: No syntax highlighting, lazy, sticky, no fun > Dreamweaver CS 5.5: ~18 secs to load, then a min or so beach ball after > scrolling to end of page... but then ok, even in Code/Design split-view > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
