[Eric] What am I doing wrong in 4.0.1 (speed issues)?

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Mittwoch, 8. August 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 08.08.07 18:38:07, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > On Montag, 6. August 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 06.08.07 17:04:04, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> > > > So, my question is basically; is there some known issue where I can
> > > > flip some switch and get back to Eric3/Qt3 performance levels?  If
> > > > not, is there a reasonable way to profile Eric in order to find out
> > > > what's taking all the time?
> > >
> > > Well, one way to make eric4 more snappy is if the fetching of the
> > > directory entries wouldn't be done in the GUI thread, but a separate
> > > thread and then this thread would send the data to the GUI thread (to
> > > create the model items) every once in a while, so you see a directory
> > > populating.
> >
> > Eric4 actually just populates the model with all the files contained in
> > the project file. Everything else (like parsing a file to show classes
> > and members) is done on-demand.
>
> Thats not what I meant. Even populating the model takes some time for
> larger directories. And that could be made more snappy by simply
> populating the model a bit, let the GUI draw the new stuff, populate a
> bit more... (I guess you know what I mean)

Yes I know what you mean. However, the net effect is, that it takes 
considerably longer to update the GUI than it takes right now. The original 
code (not released) did exactly that. Later on I decided for the one pass 
method.

Detlev
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