Re: Cream 0.28 performance issues

[Steve H. <dig...@mi...>]

From: Michael R. Freedberg, Mon Feb  9 21:37:24 2004
> 
> Hello dear Cream users!!
> Wondering if others are seeing similar performance problems and can
> offer words of advice or solace...
> I open a 2.5 meg text file from a server share. 

Can you give us an idea of how fast your connection to the server is?
What kind of network? Platform/OS? What version of Cream?

Also, are the line lengths very long? Do you have wrap (at margins) on
or off?


> When I use the arrow keys scroll to the right (about 15 chars, about
> mid-line), and then use the arrow keys to scroll down, the cursor
> moves in fits in starts, changing from a bar cursor to a red block,
> with the status bar alternating between "I" and "N". I cannot scroll
> more than 5 or 6 lines at a time, I cannot scroll smoothly up and
> down the file at all.
> 
> Am I missing some setting, some $cream variable, some wrapping
> setting or syntax coloring setting, that is causing this performance
> issue? 

I'd be curious to know if behavior improves if you turn off syntax
highlighting. (Settings menu.)


> Regular VIM does not seem to suffer this problem, but then again it
> is not toggling between insert and normal mode. Generally speaking,
> I think that the text editor should be able to scroll at superhuman
> speeds through files of any size; I can understand that syntax
> coloring takes some work, as does wrapping, as the editor handles
> the offscreen/onscreen buffer stuff, but just text should be fast
> both up and down.

Let's see if we can figure out what feature is responsible for the
slowness. Hopefully it's a bug, and not something inherent to mode
flipping or Vim.


> While I drink my coffee black, I am enjoying cream in my Vim!

Glad to hear, hope we can help.


-- 
Steve Hall  [ dig...@mi... ]

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