mwolff added a comment.
@jtamate looking at your screenshots, it represents closely what I see locally. Most notably, there are no red underlines in your screenshots which could arise due to spell checking. Thus I really wonder why you are seeing such a big hotspot there. Try perf, or try a poor mans profiler like GDB and regularly interrupt. Do you really end up in `TextLineData::attribute()`? Or, alternatively: Measure the time it takes for kate/kwrite to open the file and then go to the end. Then compare this before and after your patch. Do you see anything in the order of ~75% reduction for the time then too? Note how callgrind only measure instructions, so a supposed reduction of 75% of instructions should certainly have an impact on time too - of course not 75% too... I simply cannot fathom why you are seeing such an impact but I cannot reproduce this at all! REPOSITORY R39 KTextEditor REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D11487 To: jtamate, #frameworks, #kate Cc: anthonyfieroni, dhaumann, mwolff, cullmann, michaelh, kevinapavew, ngraham, demsking, sars