On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Brett Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> This doesn't help on Mac where we want to use the system spellchecker. > > FYI, we got a patch to use the system spellchecker on Linux as well. > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24517 > I should probably ping the original uploader again... > > This Ubuntu document describes some use cases as to why unification is good: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConsolidateSpellingLibs
It doesn't cover the negatives: A unified interface is fine except that if it calls through to the same library we used to have. The slowness and memory wastefullness of the Hunspell storage is why we wrote our own. We should be careful not to hurt the user experience. If you don't recall, initializing hunspell could easily take a few seconds when you type your first word in a text field (this will always block the renderer you're typing into). It takes 5-10 MB more memory than ours for the same data. I would not want to get this crappyness back. Brett --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
