Re: [Texmacs-dev] General efficiency of TeXmacs

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 09:36:54PM +0200, Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote:
> >I've briefly profiled the rendering code, and noticed TeXmacs does  
> >three complete repaints and one partial for, essentially, every key  
> >press. It also seems to rebuild the main menu after every key press  
> >and this causes Qt to refllow of the whole window.
> >
> 
> You should be aware that in the current Qt port the mechanisms that  
> blocks redrawing is user input happens is disabled.

This is also because of a limitation in Qt for MacOS.

> The X11 port is  
> more sophisticate in this matter and I suggest you to look at that  
> code to see how far we are in the Qt port.

This reminds me of another issue: we should take a detailed look
at the graphics mode for the Qt port.