[Lazarus] Lazarus slow on large files

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:19:11 +0100
Massimo Soricetti <notturno at quipo.it> wrote:

> Il 15/02/2012 09:14, Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:
> > 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.
> 
> Don't know if this is related, but I used a StringList component to 
> display some text in a Lazarus project months ago and it worked fine 
> with texts about 10.000-30.000 lines long, but went incredibly slow, 
> pratically freezes, when I loaded an 85.000 line textfile.
> I wonder if something in TStringList internals goes really bad when has 
> more than 65.536 lines?

Never heard of such a problem.
Please create a bug report.


> Maybe this problem afflicts the lazarus IDE too...

Mattias