1. Editors [Was:Threads [Was: Re: 64 bit euphoria]]
Mario Steele wrote:
>
> Hey Pete,
>
> Pete Lomax wrote:
> > If you still have Edita installed, and have a spare moment, can you
> > post some figures for me, along with the name of the presumably Linux
> > editor you are comparing it against?
>
> Guess you kinda missed the whole "(Recently Free'ed Pinguin here)" part in the
> following paragraph. Unfortunatly, that means, I no longer have a Windows
> partion on the hard drive. But eh, it's okay. From what I can remember,
> the closest figures I can give you on loading Win32lib in Edita, was around
> 3-4 seconds to fully parse it, and display the first "virtual" page of the
> Win32lib Source code. Agreed, not much of a delay, but Crimson Editor on
> Windows, can load up the entire Win32lib, and display, in less then, to about
> a second.
>
> Unfortunatly, the only Syntax Editor that has been developed for
> Linux/Windows,
> aside from Modifications to EE, Matt Lewis ported the Syntax 2 control in
> wxIDE,
> and I have not yet tested how long it takes wxIDE to parse it, and display it,
> due to the fact that wxIDE is still unstable in most parts.
On my machine (2.4GHz, Win2K, 750MB RAM) edita and wxIDE run very similarly,
with edita being slightly faster at paging down. Win32Lib comes up pretty
instantaneously on both wxIDE and edita. wxIDE doesn't do any sort
of look ahead to parse anything, other than splitting the lines and converting
tabs. It's a bit of a memory hog, but generally runs pretty quickly. I
pretty much use it exclusively on both win and linux at this point.
I think most of the actual bugs are gone now, though the way it works
tends to be to how I like to do things, so some people may not like
that (I plan to allow for more options in the future...). The truly unstable
part is the visual GUI designer, which I've started working on. The bulk
of the code is OK, but I've abandoned the scanning and inserting nicely
into code. It's going to be simpler now, but still very useful.
Matt Lewis
