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[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

Hello everybody,

One of the things that has always bugged me about jEdit is that
searching through a directory was annoyingly slow. In 4.0, I have made a
number of changes which have made this operation dramatically faster.

My "benchmark" was to time how long it takes to search for the string
"public class Vector" in the JDK 1.3.1 source code. I repeated this
several times, restarting jEdit each time to accomodate for disk
caching, etc.

Here are the results:

jEdit 3.2.2: 50 seconds
jEdit 4.0pre3: 19 seconds
jEdit 4.0pre4: 12 seconds

And since my machine is pretty fast (Pentium 4, ATA100 drive), the speed
improvement will be even more noticable on slower machines.
-- 
Slava Pestov