On May 19, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 19/5/2006, at 7:46, Chris Ridd wrote:
[...] Are these known problems?
I am aware of TextMate’s performance profile, yes.
[...] I want to love TM but currently cannot :-(
That’s okay, because TM would not be able to return your love.
I think this is an interesting response. Here is a product developed heavily upon other open source or freely available software, where the author recommends that users seek support from the user community, and even a very large part of the functionality is written by the user community. Yet TextMate itself is not open source, nor is it free. So when someone asks about performance and whatnot, you can't simply say 'you get what you pay for', because TextMate does cost something. And compared to other similarly complex software, it costs a lot.
I too am concerned about the performance profile. I am also concerned that nearly everything is done with Regular Expressions, which I'm sure are in large part responsible for the performance of the app. Regular Expressions can do an awful lot in the arena of text processing; but a lot of what an editor used by programmers needs to do can not be done at all, or at least very well, by over reliance on Regular Expressions.
So can you share more than a one sentence response on what we can expect in the way of performance, and API going forward? I understand there is a version 2.0 due sometime. Will this new version address the performance profile, and allow for other than RegEx for an API?
Thanks.