[Lazarus] RE : RE : RE : Console App Development

[Martin]

On 16/08/2011 16:58, Ludo Brands wrote:
>> The attached patch creates a shared imagelist
>>
>> Please test and see what is the gain
>>
>> PS: this is a quick patch just for test. more cleanup can be done
>>
> A gain of 7M for the 450 files (still using cmem) and, more important, the
> load time (first time load) dropped from 17.60 secs to 13.50 secs. This was
> tested twice to remove the effect of file caching. Not bad for a quick
> patch!
>

Well I guess I will look at that.
On windows it saves 3 or 4 secs too

There is another potential TextDrawer. Each synedit has one, and it does 
calculations on the font (so it accesses the OS).
However, it is one of the few areas of synedit that has had very little 
work, and is really not nice code.
Not sure if I will have time to look at it...