BrowserCommentTextMorph Re: 3.9 browser speed

karl karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sun Oct 22 12:40:59 UTC 2006


Andreas Raab skrev:
> Pavel Krivanek wrote:
>> the reason will be in the gradient background of windows. The
>> background is processed during every update now but the previous
>> versions were more optimized.
>
> Good theory, but I don't think this is the problem. When I turn off 
> both TTFs and gradients in 3.9 I still get something like here:
>
>     Run 1:  811 msecs
>     Run 2: 1191 msecs
>     Run 3: 1483 msecs
>     Run 4: 1867 msecs
>
> It's a little better but not significantly (and it still feels way too 
> slow). BTW, if anyone wants to repeat the experiments, the changes 
> that I did for this test were:
> * setting the window title font to a non-TTF (Accuny 14 in my case)
> * change SystemWindow>>gradientWithColor: to return just the color
> So I'm still at a loss what has changed to introduce that slowdown.
>
> Hm ... let me try something. Oh, yes, now *that* would explain it. 
> Turn on #debugShowDamage in 3.9 and watch how it redraws the entire 
> screen almost every time you click anywhere in a browser. Ouch. No 
> idea why that is but it sure explains the effect. 
Commenting out some code  in BrowserCommentTextMorph reduces the bogus 
invalidation, so we have to debug the class BrowserCommentTextMorph to 
see what make it behave so bad.
Karl



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