On 8 Jan, 10:11, "Jean-Philippe Bernardy" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Michael Dagitses > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone find yi to perform sluggishly in Linux? Particularly when run > > in large windows and on larger files? > > > Here is a summary of what I've found: > > > When running on Mac OS X in terminal, I am unable to ever get yi to perform > > badly. Even when running maximized terminal on a 24 inch monitor on very > > large files. A++! > > > When running yi on linux, however, I get fairly large performance issues, > > particularly when moving the caret up and down in files (even if the frame > > is not forced to refresh). So for example, if I hold down the down key for > > a few seconds, it will lag and not finish moving down for several seconds > > after releasing the key. > > > I have tried this across a wide variety of terminals (uxterm, urxvt, xterm, > > gnome-terminal) and have had the same results. Also I have tried using two > > different window managers (xmonad and gnome), with no noticeable effect. > > The only factor that seems to have an impact is making the terminal windows > > smaller, but I find this solution to be unsatisfactory. > > Did you make sure that > 1. The size of the terminals are the same in terms of row + columns? > 2. The input character repetition rate is the same? > > So far I attributed performance difference to these factors, but I never > did any precise measurement. > > > This is a very high performance workstation (8 core, 8gb ram), so I do not > > consider it likely that this is the issue. The monitor is large (30in), but > > I do not think that should be a factor when the terminals are sized much > > smaller than that. > > > A further note to suggest it is not the machine (at least the non-graphical > > parts of the machine) nor the Linux OS that is the source of the issues is > > that yi performs well on this machine when sshed from a Mac. > > > Does anyone else have a similar experience to this when running Linux? Any > > suggestions for mitigating these issues? Also, I am willing to provide any > > additional information that could be of help here, just let me know what is > > required.
I can second this. Yi comes unbearably slow on large files under Linux. Moving the cursor becomes very sluggish and the CPU usage goes to 100%. This is with the latest darcs version on a fairly fast machine. Cheers, Lemmih. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
