Slower viewer [was Re: Shall we have a release?]

[Roland Illig]

Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hello Roland,
> 
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 17:04 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
>>The file viewer has become much slower for large files, which annoys 
>>some users.
> 
> 
> What exactly are these regressions? If I view a 40MB text file on a
> 256MB system pressing End actually gets me to the end much faster than
> with a binary from June 2005 (5 vs 60 secs). Opening of the file is not
> significantly slower (if at all) than with the old version.
> 
> Is this really an issue (that should stop us from doing a release)?

You should try mc-4.6.1 then. It gets you to the end immediately. Note 
that we had a long time where mc-4.6.1 had already been branched, but I 
had rewritten the viewer in -HEAD.

Roland