On Sunday 23 November 2008 09.26:35 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Mattias Gaertner > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:05:43 +0200 > > For example the lazarus IDE typically holds 50 to 200mb sources in > > memory. If this would be changed to unicodestring (2 byte per char) then > > the IDE would need 50 to 200mb more memory. > > Ah, and that would probably explain why Martin decided not to > pre-parse units in MSEide - for things like code complection etc... > MSEide's memory usage would balloon greatly, compared to Lazarus. > MSEide parses the code for code navigation only and on demand. For creating event handlers and the like the compiled in RTTI will be used. I decided not to parse the RTL because I wanted to be independent from the source installation and because I think the task to do exact parsing of the whole FPC RTL and other libraries is too difficult and not necessary because RTTI provides sufficient information. The parser uses 8bit strings, 16bit is used in the code editor. It is possible to work a whole day with MSEide without closing a single file and without noticeable loss of speed.
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