Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:36:53 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: eivind@FreeBSD.ORG (Eivind Eklund) Cc: marko@uk.radan.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Note on my experience with Netscape 4.6 Message-ID: <199905271636.LAA10189@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19990527122201.A7840@bitbox.follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 27, 99 12:22:01 pm"
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> On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 08:09:19AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > Have they fixed the crap text search algorithm yet? With 4.5 you > > measure the search time for large (couple of hundred KB) HTML docs in > > minutes! > > Actually, this does not seem to be a problem with the search > algorithm, but rather with something in the redraw code. The long > search time is due to memory use and swapping; I don't know exactly > how it manage to use memory, though. > > I do know the workaround, though: Move the requester where you enter > the search term outside the window where you have the actual webpage. > (It is one of the weirdest bugs I know of...) > If your window is the focus, then perhaps some kind of operation between the application and X server is happening? I have noticed (a long time ago) that things like huge scroll regions are very slow to manipulate... Wonder if this is a similar problem? (I haven't done any X programming for probably 5yrs now.) John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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