[Geany-devel] editing big files can be too slow with tag reparsing - HTML

[Nick Treleaven]

On 24/09/2011 11:59, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Le 22/09/2011 18:30, Nick Treleaven a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> Whilst opening doc/geany.html I found it takes>5s on my machine to
>> load. It's a big document though, still perhaps the HTML tag parser
>> performance could be improved.
>
> I think 5s is weird in the first place.  I know geany.html is 6.5k-lines
> file, and that it may have say, 150 tags, but 5s seems way too much IMHO.
>
> Maybe we should try to find out why this is so slow on your machine,
> there might show a Geany bug, performance problem or something else.

I'm reduced to using Windows. I guess the reason is the regex code that 
is really old which is used for Windows builds. It might help to update 
it from CTags (we had a patch from Jiri Techet but it didn't look like 
it would build on Windows, i.e. wasn't from CTags).

> * What kind of machine did you run (basically, CPU's MHz)

Pentium 4, 1.9 GHz, 512 MB ram.

> * Had you many HTML files open, with many tags each?
> * Had you many non-HTML files open?

Just that one file.