Re: Slower viewer [was Re: Shall we have a release?]
Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Roland, list, > > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 06:35 +0200, Roland Illig wrote: > >>You should try mc-4.6.1 then. It gets you to the end immediately. Note >>that we had a long time where mc-4.6.1 had already been branched, but I >>had rewritten the viewer in -HEAD. > > > Slight mistake on my behalf. Although the tested rpm was older than > 4.6.1 it was a HEAD tarball. Indeed a plain 4.6.1 jumps to the end of > the file instantly. > > Still you brought down the line cache load time from 60 to 4 seconds. > Less takes about 3 seconds to get to the end of the same file, which is > a little more than the time the old viewer takes to go to a line number > (F5) around the bottom of the file. > > Once the file has been read in the new viewer goto works instantly. Note > that jumping back and forth to a line at the beginning and the end is > actually faster in the new viewer. Jumping back from a "far" line to a > "close" line in the old viewer is still instantaneous but jumping back > to the "far" line actually takes 2 1/2 seconds again! I also have the > impression the goto dialog is more sluggish in the old version. > > All in all only the initial "End" seems to have regressed. For the rest > the new viewer actually behaves better than the one in 4.6.1. > > Once again, is this something we should suspend a release over? No, I don't think so. Roland ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: Slower viewer [was Re: Shall we have a release?]
Hi Roland, list, On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 06:35 +0200, Roland Illig wrote: > You should try mc-4.6.1 then. It gets you to the end immediately. Note > that we had a long time where mc-4.6.1 had already been branched, but I > had rewritten the viewer in -HEAD. Slight mistake on my behalf. Although the tested rpm was older than 4.6.1 it was a HEAD tarball. Indeed a plain 4.6.1 jumps to the end of the file instantly. Still you brought down the line cache load time from 60 to 4 seconds. Less takes about 3 seconds to get to the end of the same file, which is a little more than the time the old viewer takes to go to a line number (F5) around the bottom of the file. Once the file has been read in the new viewer goto works instantly. Note that jumping back and forth to a line at the beginning and the end is actually faster in the new viewer. Jumping back from a "far" line to a "close" line in the old viewer is still instantaneous but jumping back to the "far" line actually takes 2 1/2 seconds again! I also have the impression the goto dialog is more sluggish in the old version. All in all only the initial "End" seems to have regressed. For the rest the new viewer actually behaves better than the one in 4.6.1. Once again, is this something we should suspend a release over? Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: Slower viewer [was Re: Shall we have a release?]
Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Roland, > > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 17:04 +0200, Roland Illig wrote: > >>The file viewer has become much slower for large files, which annoys >>some users. > > > What exactly are these regressions? If I view a 40MB text file on a > 256MB system pressing End actually gets me to the end much faster than > with a binary from June 2005 (5 vs 60 secs). Opening of the file is not > significantly slower (if at all) than with the old version. > > Is this really an issue (that should stop us from doing a release)? You should try mc-4.6.1 then. It gets you to the end immediately. Note that we had a long time where mc-4.6.1 had already been branched, but I had rewritten the viewer in -HEAD. Roland ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
