[TxMt] How to freeze your TextMate

[Bill Bumgarner]

On Oct 30, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Max Noel wrote:

> The actual problem is not the insertion of text -- it's TextMate's  
> reparsing of the whole file afterwards. Its scoping system needs to  
> do it, whereas Xcode's syntax highlighting (which is also a few  
> orders of magnitude less complex/powerful) can often get away with  
> only reparsing what's on the screen right now.
>
> TM is slow when processing very large files. It's a known problem  
> (although not that important if you ask me).

That isn't entirely true.  The Cocoa text subsystem is not terribly  
efficient at rendering HUGE chunks of text, either from the layout or  
loading perspective.

b.bum