[Lazarus] Lazarus slow on large files

[Marco van de Voort]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:39:35PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > > 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.

Known problems (also on Delphi):

- TStringlist typically uses twice the amount of RAM needed.
- Insertion into a sorted tstringlist gets very slow in the beyond
  100-200kstrings magnitude.