Re: NSTextView/text system slowdown on Leopard

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Mon Feb 04 21:46:01 2008

On Feb 4, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Keith Blount wrote:

> Is there anything I can do about this? I can reproduce the slowdown 
> in almost any app that uses an NSTextSystem. If I unplug my iBook to 
> use less processing power, then paste a couple of thousand words 
> into TextEdit and start typing somewhere inside the text (works fine 
> at the bottom), typing is a slow trudge, with drawing struggling to 
> keep up with my key strokes. There was no such problem on Tiger.
>
>
> So, I'm just wondering if, 1) this is an issue that I need to file a 
> bug report on, or 2) there is something I can do to optimise the 
> performance of text in Leopard for slower machines.


File a bug report, the more specific the better.

Douglas Davidson