Re: large performance difference between gtktextview and gtksourceview

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Actually, gtksourceview is a subclass of gtktextview so it supports BiDi
and i18n as good as gtktextview does. If it doesn't it is a bug.

With regard to the performance differences, it seems very strange that
you see a difference, especially one where gtksourceview is faster.

Are you sure you are comparing apples to apples? (E.g is the program is
exactly the same except for using sourceview/buffer? Or do thay load the
content differently and one feeds it in chunks to the buffer while the
other doesn't or other things).

That said if you are going to look into textview performance that would
only make me happy. Feel free to drop by on irc in the #gedit channel to
discuss gtksourceview any time.


Ciao
        Paolo

On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 11:47 +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> Last time I checked (which was a long time ago) gtksourceview did not
> support BiDi and possibly other i18n issues. But this per se is no
> explanation for it being slower. And yes, performance can always be
> improved.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 18:12, Olivier Sessink <oliviersessink gmail com>wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > loading 1Mb of UTF-8 encoded text into a gtk text view seems to take
> > much more time than loading the same buffer into gtksourceview. Since
> > gtksourceview has all of the functionality of gtktextview and more,
> > where is this difference coming from? And does this mean that we can
> > improve the performance of gtktextview?
> >
> > regards,
> >   Olivier
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