[Lazarus] About 0013268: SynEdit parses every line twice on load or paste (Attn: Flávio)

[Vincent Snijders]

2009/3/4 Martin Friebe <lazarus at mfriebe.de>:
> Hi,
>
> To take the discussion of the bug tracker.
>
> My current intention on this issue would be to solve the additional
> issues, such as double scan on Paste, or ensuring LoadFromFile only does
> a single scan for all lines in one go)
>
> This would mean the only Problem remaining is:
> If a user writes his own code, calling Lines.Add (or even Lines.Insert)
> in a loop. And does so without calling Lines.BeginUpdate before.
>
> While I admit that such a behaviour would add a lot of calculation
> overhead, with the current SynEdit implementation, I would also see it
> partly as a user error, since other Components also provide BeginUpdate
> or similar Methods.

IMHO, if the user does not call Lines.BeginUpdate before doing
Lines.Add or Lines.Insert, then the performance penality is his own
fault, not something that must be fixed.

Vincent