[Lazarus] Lazarus slow on large files

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Sven Barth wrote:

> Am 15.02.2012 09:14, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I was doing some test programming for android.
>> The android SDK unit contains 68000 lines (.pas and .inc together).
>> Opening it in the IDE (by right-clicking an identifier in my sources)
>> virtually stops the IDE.
>> 
>> The source of the android include file are drawn, but the scrollbars are
>> not drawn, scrolling or navigating the source does not work, and the IDE
>> is generally totally unresponsive. Only closing the tab again makes the
>> IDE responsive.
>> (and even the closing takes a while).
>> 
>> All this is on Linux, GTK, 64-bit, Lazarus from yesterday.
>> 
>> Has anyone else experienced similar problems ?
>
> Yes, me of course :D (also x86_64-linux, though the IDE is from around the 
> beginning of the year)
>
> Though it was bearable as I moved my Android development to my rather 
> powerful machine (because JVM compilation is rather slow and also blocks my 
> single core main computer -.- ) and used it through X11 forwarding...

My PC is an 4-core machine ?
It should be able to handle this with its fingers up its nose, I would think...

It's clearly an issue in drawing, because the code completion seems to work
fine.

Michael.