Re: [plt-dev] JFYI editor performance note

[John Clements]

On Apr 17, 2009, at 6:49 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

At Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:48:57 -0700, John Clements wrote:

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

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.

all onto the screen. In 4.1.4, on the other hand, DrScheme takes them

I was able to see the same effect with my old PPC machine. This is now
fixed in SVN.

The problem was that every keystroke would trigger a redraw for the
whole canvas, instead of just the line where the character was
inserted.

Many thanks!

John

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