28 Mar
2006
28 Mar
'06
1:10 p.m.
On 28/3/2006, at 14:49, Afternoon wrote:
So how long does it (roughly) take?
Slightly under a second. The window is shown with uncoloured text and the register window is shown. Nothing happens to the text until I click later.
The registration window runs a modal event loop, basically blocking other events.
It has to parse the text using NFA-based regular expressions (not an efficient parser written/generated for the grammar), and it assigns colors to the text using a scope selector system.
So while it can probably be made faster down the road, taking up to a second is likely not indicative of any performance problem (especially since it’s threaded), it’s just the price to pay for the flexibility this system provides.