[TxMt] Huge files in Textmate ( ***long*** )

[Allan Odgaard]

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.