[Geany-devel] multiple error message slowness - Re: Update to build support

[Nick Treleaven]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:52:18 +0100
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> >I assumed it might be parsing the setting indicators for each build
> >error. Or the build parsing, not sure. If the first, we could stop
> >highlighting errors after the first 50 or so.
> 
> Ah, yeah. That(build error indicators) is more probable to be the cause
> for the slowness. However, I don't think there is much need to limit
> this, if users are bothered by this, they can simply disable the
> highlighting in the prefs dialog. 

Well, *if* this is the cause, I think it would be best to limit the
errors. Error indicators are useful up to a point, but who is really
going to look at each error for >50, >100, >200 errors? If there are a
lot, they're likely caused by the same problem.

Regards,
Nick