[TxMt] slow text rendering

[Justin Mitchell]

I tried changing the Theme to the dark one, and I don't think it has  
the different background color around PHP code. It was still slow.

Sadly, I'm having to experiment with other editors now, too... :[

Justin


On May 13, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:

> I've noticed this also ... I think there was a recent thread on it  
> in this mailing list about this, but it could have been about  
> something else since I wasn't following it very closely.
>
> I'll add some more here, tho since it does make TextMate difficult  
> to use at the moment ...
>
> Specifically I notice then when the syntax highlight needs to:
>
> * Change the background color of a block of text.
> For instance, the new PHPBundle seems to change the bground of the  
> phpblocks into a slightly off color than the rest of the (possibly  
> html) page .. I'll see the background slowly change color as TM  
> makes it's way down the length of the window processing/parsing the  
> text to syntax-color it from top to bottom
>
> * Also when text is set to be italic for some reason or the other  
> (again , the php bundle, I think it does that for comments ...) ..  
> rendering/typing is noticably slow.
>
> I'm also primarily on an 867 G4, 1gig of ram, Panther.9 ...
>
> I've switched over to jEdit for the meantime and kept quite since I  
> was hoping/thinking it might just be an issue w/ the recent beta  
> releases being 'unofficial' of sorts.
>
> I reckon I could alleviate this by changing the syntax hilite to  
> NOT do those things which I think makes it slow down, but I figured  
> it's worth mentioning anyway.
>
> regards,
> -steve
>
>
>
> Justin Mitchell wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>> I'm running TM 1.1b8 on a 400Mhz iMac DV/SE with 512MB of ram   
>> (running Tiger). Text rendering seems to be very slow... to the  
>> point  where it really isn't usable. It's most noticeable when  
>> you're  scrolling, or when you first open a document. It's slowest  
>> when  syntax highlighting is on... otherwise it's not so bad.
>> The iMac does perfectly fine in other text editors, web browsers,  
>> and  such.
>> Anyways, I just figured I'd get the word out, just in case  
>> nobody's  noticed :)
>> Justin
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