[TxMt] Re: Annoying slowdowns of textmate...

[Kai Janson]

A long time ago there was a discussion about TextMate leaking memory  
when using "Find in Project" ... I wonder if that applies here, too.
On Apr 30, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Scott Haneda wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Andrew Farley wrote:
>
>> So, first, I regularly background and foreground TextMate, and every
>> time I do so with this "folder" open in a TextMate window, it takes
>> anywhere from 2 to 20 seconds to re-foreground.  I'm one of those
>> really really fast users who makes a change, switches to browser,  
>> hits
>> refresh, goes back, makes a change, etc. etc.  Pretty standard with
>> web development.  This delay (especially when it leans towards the
>> longer end) is really unbearable.  I have a feeling that it is re-
>> scanning the entire directory tree for changes everytime I  
>> background/
>> foreground it.  This is less than ideal.  I've been to a few Leopard
>> dev talks at the last WWDC and I remember a feature (can't remember
>> the name) that let you subscribe to folder/file changes.  Perhaps
>> TextMate should do this instead of rescanning the directory tree for
>> changes?  Or, maybe it's not doing that... but something is happening
>> which makes it take up to around 20 (sometimes rarely even 30-40)
>> seconds everytime I foreground textmate with this folder open.
>> Anything I can do about this?
>
>
> I am anxious to see if you find others who notice this or found a
> solution.  I was talking with a friend about this the other day, and http://ciaranwal.sh/remate/
>  ReMate was mentioned.  This was more to speed up ExpanDrive, so not
> sure if it applies.
>
> I am not editing more than a few files at a time, and until the other
> day, was not even using projects, as I never saw the "Save as Project"
> option.  I felt it was too much a pain to drag and drop files to make
> a new project every time, this has been solved.  But I still do a lot
> of remote dev, and there is no way to get remote opened windows into
> project order, so I am still stumped.
>
> Back to the issue at hand, with my small, around 10-100k in size
> files, I too noticed the lag in toggling between command-tab of apps.
> I use Lite Switch X, and was attributing it to that app, but good to
> know that is not the case.
>
> Only ever when I use TM, does edit -> cmd-tab -> Safari/Refresh ->  
> cmd-
> tab, there is a clear, noticeable slowness in that switch to me.
> Sometimes it is more than others, ReMate did nothing to solve this for
> me.
>
> For me, it is minimal, but it is something I do in fact "feel".  It
> seems to grow worse as time goes on, I reboot of the entire machine is
> needed to make it get snappy again, but it will slow quickly.
>
> Glad someone else does in fact notice it.  Though only glad in that I
> do not have to troubleshoot my hardware and software setup :)
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