At Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:48:57 -0700, John Clements wrote: > On my ancient PPC G5 cheese-grater, svn head editors are very very > slow relative to 4.1.4. I note the following things: > > 1) I can get *way* ahead of the keystroke buffer. In particular, if I > type 160 characters quickly, it takes svn head 15 seconds to get them > all onto the screen. In 4.1.4, on the other hand, DrScheme takes them > as fast as I personally can type them, in this case 154 chars in 5 > seconds. So, this is at least 3 times as fast, possibly much more.
>From my measurements, many core editor operations now take 6-10 times as long as before. Even, the operation of inserting a character shouldn't take 1/10 second. I'll investigate into this example specifically. > 2) Pasting text from one buffer into another is a particular problem, > often taking many seconds. Pasting has some deeper problem, which is still under investigation. Thanks for the data points! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
