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

[Roland Illig]

Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Roland, list,
> 
> On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 06:35 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Slight mistake on my behalf. Although the tested rpm was older than
> 4.6.1 it was a HEAD tarball. Indeed a plain 4.6.1 jumps to the end of
> the file instantly.
> 
> Still you brought down the line cache load time from 60 to 4 seconds.
> Less takes about 3 seconds to get to the end of the same file, which is
> a little more than the time the old viewer takes to go to a line number
> (F5) around the bottom of the file.
> 
> Once the file has been read in the new viewer goto works instantly. Note
> that jumping back and forth to a line at the beginning and the end is
> actually faster in the new viewer. Jumping back from a "far" line to a
> "close" line in the old viewer is still instantaneous but jumping back
> to the "far" line actually takes 2 1/2 seconds again! I also have the
> impression the goto dialog is more sluggish in the old version.
> 
> All in all only the initial "End" seems to have regressed. For the rest
> the new viewer actually behaves better than the one in 4.6.1.
> 
> Once again, is this something we should suspend a release over?

No, I don't think so.

Roland