[Q] scrolling large collections

Eddie Cottongim cottonsqueak at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 9 22:37:04 UTC 2003


isVisible just checks the "visible" property. It doesn't tell if the morph
is visible due to clipping regions. There are several methods that make this
optimization, but it does very little good as far as I know, since the vast
majority of morphs aren't set to invisible. Even if it did work, its still a
per-morph operation.

StringMorph (down in the text drawing part) does figure out if its not
visible on the current vancas. But it has to work down to a fairly lowel
level before it kicks out.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Konz" <ned at bike-nomad.com>
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Subject: Re: [Q] scrolling large collections


> On Wednesday 09 April 2003 01:33 pm, Eddie Cottongim wrote:
> > By the way, although an ambitious changeset like Lex's Largelists
> > may not be able to gain favor from n squeakers (gaining such
> > acceptance would seem to be an O(N!) problem) we could do some
> > minor things to help ScrollPane.
> >
> > Specifically, on every scroll it iterates through all its morphs (
> > I think i'm getting this right!) to find their bounds. This as far
> > as I can tell can be cached very reasonably to at least double the
> > scrolling speed. Calculate it lazily, and invalidate it upon a
> > #layoutChanged. This isn't a total speed fix but its simple and a
> > considerable increment.
> >
> > If anyone is interested in such changes I'll prepare them (its
> > perhaps 2 one-liners), but I'm inclined to believe no one is. Of
> > course if I'm overlooking something fundamental please let me know.
>
> You must mean that Lex's change set does this. The stock code, as I'm
> sure you know, just iterates through the morphs and draws each one to
> a clipping canvas.
>
> It seems to me like the behavior of the stock drawing code can be made
> a lot faster with large lists by a simple addition to ClippingCanvas:
>
> fullDrawMorph: m
> (self isVisible: m fullBounds) ifFalse: [ ^self ].
> super fullDrawMorph: m
>
> However, I haven't benchmarked it myself.
>
> Does anyone have a good benchmark for redrawing browsers (for
> instance)? I think Andreas had posted something like that a while
> ago.
>
> --
> Ned Konz
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>
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