[Geany-Devel] Geany performance

[Pavel Roschin]

> Well, the costly part is the rendering, which happens from a delayed GTK
> idle callback inside scintilla.  As Matthew said when the text is inserted
> into the buffer the cursor is at the end, getting it back to the start
> before the rendering is important, the less of the text Scintilla renders
> the better, and if the position is set at zero it *should* only render the
> start of the text, not the whole file, which would happen if the position
> was still at the end.

I didn't noticed that somewhere cursor placed at end of file. Geany calls
set_cursor_position several times. But actually goto isn't bottleneck, only
SCI_ENSUREVISIBLE slows things down.

P.S. I hope now all messages are correct? I had a troubles with my mail filters.

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Best regards,
Pavel Roschin aka RPG