Re: sorted file takes much longer to load

On 2014-09-13 14:52, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> All this just for just for being able to use the "go" command...
> Well, and some other functionality that uses byte offsets.
>
> Besides optimizing ml_updatechunk() for the use case of reading a
> large file, another method would be to not keep anything updated
> until "go" is actually used. I suspect most people don't use it at
> all. It will have an impact on the first time "go" is used, but
> not more than what is currently being done when reading a file.

I'm not "most people" apparently (though I suspected that to begin
with) as I do use "go" occasionally. It's not frequent, and I
personally wouldn't complain in this particular scenario if the first
time I used it imposed a little byte-offset-calculation-delay. Most
of the time I'm using Latin1 or 7-bit ASCCI files so it shouldn't be
as big a deal. I've actually found "go" useless in multibyte files, as
I'm usually not interested so much in the *byte* offset as in the
*character* offset, and "go" can land you mid-character in such a
file.

-tim



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