Re: [vile] memory usage

[Kevin Buettner]

On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:30:29 -0400
Paul Fox <address@hidden> wrote:

> thomas wrote:
>  > something like 40 bytes iirc).  Besides highlighting, the visual-matches 
>  > feature is a performance hit.  Both of those apply lots of markup to the 
>  > file.
>  > 
>  > One of the things that I have in mind to work on (when 9.8's out) is
>  > to improve performance of the highlighting by reducing the amount of the
>  > file processed when highlighting it...
> 
> maybe a threshold above which highlighting and visual matches are simply
> disabled would be useful?  i know that when i'm editing a file that's
> very big, it's usually a log, or debug trace, and there's usually no
> point in vile trying to color it in any case.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Kevin