[TxMt] Performance issues

[Timothy Reaves]

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.