Re: [racket-dev] Large preferences file and performance

2010-12-03 Thread Robby Findler
On Friday, December 3, 2010, Neil Toronto wrote: > Eli Barzilay wrote: > > 20 minutes ago, Casey Klein wrote: > > I just pushed a fix for a bug that made DrRacket extremely sluggish > on my laptop. Most everything was slow, but typing in the find and > replace fields was particularly bad -- each c

Re: [racket-dev] Large preferences file and performance

2010-12-03 Thread Neil Toronto
Eli Barzilay wrote: 20 minutes ago, Casey Klein wrote: I just pushed a fix for a bug that made DrRacket extremely sluggish on my laptop. Most everything was slow, but typing in the find and replace fields was particularly bad -- each character would take about a second to appear on screen. The

Re: [racket-dev] Large preferences file and performance

2010-12-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
50 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: > This would not have helped us with the bug Casey found, I don't think. Well, not the bug itself (having a huge preference file that is saved on every keypress), but it would have made life easier since a quick sequence of keypresses would have only one write

Re: [racket-dev] Large preferences file and performance

2010-12-02 Thread Robby Findler
This would not have helped us with the bug Casey found, I don't think. Robby On Thursday, December 2, 2010, Eli Barzilay wrote: > 20 minutes ago, Casey Klein wrote: >> I just pushed a fix for a bug that made DrRacket extremely sluggish >> on my laptop. Most everything was slow, but typing in the

Re: [racket-dev] Large preferences file and performance

2010-12-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
20 minutes ago, Casey Klein wrote: > I just pushed a fix for a bug that made DrRacket extremely sluggish > on my laptop. Most everything was slow, but typing in the find and > replace fields was particularly bad -- each character would take > about a second to appear on screen. > > The problem tur