Re: [Bug-zile] Incremental search is dog slow in moderately-sized files

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Reuben,

On Jan 17, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

> e.g. 57Kb of xkb keyboard layout, that's 1337 lines (no kidding!).


Absolutely EVERYTHING is dog slow when point is more than a few hundred lines 
into any file of moderate size.  It's been this way in Lua Zile forever :(

I'm afraid I don't know why, but given the ever slowing flickering of the 
cursor between point and minibuf the further one advances into a file, I would 
guess that it is either the buffer-gap management (could be on the alien or the 
Zile side) or the redraw loop (could be on the luacurses or Zile side).

It's on my TODO list, immediately following a fair number of code clean ups 
that will make analysis easier.

If you feel so inclined, stepping through everything executed when pressing an 
arrow key near the end of a moderately sized file to find where the cycles are 
being wasted would be a good way to pin it down.  Or if you already know how to 
use a lua profiler, profiling a longish dog-slow isearch session may be enough 
to narrow it down.  If you don't feel inclined, please sit tight, I'll get to 
it soon enough :)

Feel free to file a bug report in the mean time.  It's a real issue I've been 
ignoring for a long time.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan

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