[SVN] OCaml syntax highlight SLOW

Benjamin Ylvisaker benjaminy at fastmail.fm
Tue Oct 10 00:14:25 UTC 2006


On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:00:59 +0200
Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1 at macromates.com> wrote:

> On 10. Oct 2006, at 01:50, Benjamin Ylvisaker wrote:
> 
> > I made the changes you suggested, and it seems to have helped quite a
> > bit, but I still get the pinwheel for, maybe, 2 to 4 seconds when I
> > switch to one of the big files.  That's livable (I was unhappily
> > considering switching back to Aquamacs because of the delay before),
> > but it would be nice if there wasn't any perceptible delay at all.
> 
> 2.0 will have a somewhat faster parser, until then I am afraid your  
> only options are to simplify the OCaml grammar or buy a faster  
> machine ;)

Before I dive into TextMate grammar hacking, what do you think the
likelihood is that the OCaml grammar has some kind of performance bug
that can be resolved easily?

Benjamin



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