Ah, that must be why large files open slowly for me: I always keep soft wrapping and syntax coloring on. By the way, why do so many coders prefer to keep soft wrapping off? My code lines are usually manually hard-wrapped anyway, but if soft wrapping is disabled my block comments (and some other lines) tend to get cut off by the edge of the window. I'm guessing that there's some disadvantage to soft wrapping (in addition to slower file opening) that I don't understand.
Lawrence San Business Writing: Santhology.com Cartoon Stories for Thoughtful People: Sanstudio.com On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Tom Robinson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]. > -- 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].
