Re: [DrJava] Speed Is An Issue

[Charles R. <cr...@ri...>]

   Wow-- I can confirm the need to work on speed on OS X.  As a CCA, I 
have one of the older iBooks (the ugly orange handbag-looking thing), 
with OS X 10.0.4 installed.  Granted, it's not the fastest machine, but 
I can get done typing an entire line before it has shown the first word.
   One thing worth noting is that the Interactions pane has acceptable 
performance (it's _much_ faster than the Definitions pane).  I haven't 
tried the suggested fix, but it's worth poking around to see what can be 
done...

Charlie


Peter Centgraf wrote:
> I know this may not be a popular suggestion, but could we make it a 
> feature/improvement project to speed up the main editor?  Right now 
> speed is the primary reason why I cannot use Dr. Java for real 
> programming.  According to several online tests, I type at approximately 
> 60 wpm.  This is certainly not expert typing performance by clerical 
> standards, but it is above average.  I believe it is reasonable to 
> expect Dr. Java to be able to keep up with this rate of input.  
> Unfortunately, I can type "public static int" in less time than it takes 
> Dr. Java to display "public static" with proper coloring.  This is 
> simply unacceptable.  Keep in mind that this is running on a reasonably 
> up to date 500 MHz machine with all Swing acceleration features turned on.
> 
> For comparison, I played with various other Java text environments.  The 
> plain-vanilla text box in MRJAppBuilder had no trouble keeping up with 
> me.  BlueJ will fall behind if I pound arbitrary characters, and it is 
> clear that some lag is occurring, but I was not able to produce any 
> "stutter" in my text input.  By the time I raised my finger from the 
> last letter of a word, BlueJ had always rendered that word.  I also 
> played with JBuilder 6.  It was even more responsive.  Even pounding 
> random keys as fast as I could manage, JBuilder still produced virtually 
> instant response.  Both of the last two examples perform fairly complex 
> syntax coloring.  I think that if they can do this, we can too.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Centgraf
> Lovett College
> Rice University
> Houston, TX
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