Re: [Gzigzag-commits] gzigzag/Java/flob FTextLayouter.zob SimpleTextView.zob

[Benjamin Fallenstein <b.fallenstein@xxxxxx>]

Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Benjamin Fallenstein wrote:
> > Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> > > But you're right: we shouldn't be solving performance problems until we
> > > encounter them. Currently, the most important one would be VanishingView,
> > > when depth is set to be large. That's quite slow and I suspect a part of
> > > it is because of the FlobSet's liberal use of Vectors. But that would need
> > > actual profiling before doing anything to make sure that that is really
> > > the place where the trouble is. Because drawing also is significant there.
> >
> > Well, my FlobSet-as-Flob draft gets rid of that vector use, using
> > pointered lists instead. Unfortunately, I'm not having enough time to
> > make it work right now. Sometime in the next few weeks...
> 
> Pointered lists of flobs or of new objects? Adding a field to every flob
> would not be nice as most cells have only one visible flob at a time, so
> that should be the efficient case.

Pointered lists of flobs. As this doesn't need any surplus objects if
there is only one visible flob, just a field in each flob which holds
null, and especially as this case can be treated after a simple
comparison of this field against null, it is the efficient case.

-b.