Hi,

I did a little experiment to check the performance of Rubric when dealing with large content. And by large, I mean 45 MB  or about 15 million lines of text.

I opened the file in several other editors:
- TextMate: 10s + the text is wrapped and can be browsed smoothly
- Sublime Text 2: 10s + the text is wrapped and can be browsed smoothly
- Eclipse: 5s + browsing is very slow (so it is basically useless)

How did Rubric perform:
- When opened with unwrapped lines: 33s + the text can be browsed smoothly
- When opened with wrapped lines -> Pharo crashed :(

In any case, I think being 3 times slower (even if without wrapping) than TextMate is highly exciting. Great job Alain.

If you want to reproduce the experiment, here is the Smalltalk snippet I used:

---
Gofer new
        smalltalkhubUser: 'AlainPlantec' project: 'Rubric';
        package: 'Rubric-AlainPlantec.26';
        load.

[
        contents := ((FileSystem disk workingDirectory / 'src' / 'ArgoUML-0-34' / 'output.mse') readStreamDo: #contents).
         (RubLipsumBasicExample
                windowWithScrolledText: (
                RubLipsumBasicExample new
                        string: contents;
                        newScrolledTextNotWrapped))
                        openInWorld
         ] timeToRun
---

Cheers,
Doru

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