Hello all,
I sat with Benjamin today to have a look at Glamour performance when displaying large text files. For reminder, when displaying text in glamour, the time to display text increases exponentially with the size of the text being displayed.
Two observations:
1/ Whereas, with the following script the execution time remains equivalent to that of morphs
MessageTally spyOn: [ (*GLMPluggableTextMorph* on: [ (StandardFileStream fileNamed: 'testfile-glam-3500.txt') contents ] text: #value accept: nil) openInWindow extent: (1273.0@738.0) ]
the execution of this script is four times longer:
| browser text| browser := *GLMTabulator* new. browser column: #text. browser transmit to: #text; andShow: [ :a | a text title: 'Text with selection'; display: [(StandardFileStream fileNamed: 'testfile-glam-3500.txt') contents]]. MessageTally spyOn: [browser openOn: 2].
2/ A bit of digging (using time profiler) shows that the garbage collector is taking 75% of the execution time. [image: Inline image 1]
Doru, will you have an idea what makes garbage collector execute and take extra seconds when the text is displayed in a glamour browser instead of individual glmaour widget?
The moose image with the scripts can be found here if you want to have a look. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11804892/glamour-perf-tests.zip
thanx in advance,
Usman
Hi,
Not really. We would need some spy over the objects that get created to answer that question. I will try to take a look, but I cannot promise anything.
However, I think we can find another solution. Perhaps we could create another presentation that uses a plain TextMorph that is less heavy than the PluggableTextMorph.
Cheers, Doru
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Usman Bhatti usman.bhatti@gmail.comwrote:
Hello all,
I sat with Benjamin today to have a look at Glamour performance when displaying large text files. For reminder, when displaying text in glamour, the time to display text increases exponentially with the size of the text being displayed.
Two observations:
1/ Whereas, with the following script the execution time remains equivalent to that of morphs
MessageTally spyOn: [ (*GLMPluggableTextMorph* on: [ (StandardFileStream fileNamed: 'testfile-glam-3500.txt') contents ] text: #value accept: nil) openInWindow extent: (1273.0@738.0) ]
the execution of this script is four times longer:
| browser text| browser := *GLMTabulator* new. browser column: #text. browser transmit to: #text; andShow: [ :a | a text title: 'Text with selection'; display: [(StandardFileStream fileNamed: 'testfile-glam-3500.txt') contents]]. MessageTally spyOn: [browser openOn: 2].
2/ A bit of digging (using time profiler) shows that the garbage collector is taking 75% of the execution time. [image: Inline image 1]
Doru, will you have an idea what makes garbage collector execute and take extra seconds when the text is displayed in a glamour browser instead of individual glmaour widget?
The moose image with the scripts can be found here if you want to have a look. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11804892/glamour-perf-tests.zip
thanx in advance,
Usman
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this is strange that there is so much trashing of the GC. Now this is probably not the answer but can you apply the change made by alain to see the difference? this change short cuts the use of widestrings.
!Paragraph methodsFor: 'composition' stamp: 'AlainPlantec 9/13/2012 23:45'! composeAll ^ self composeLinesFrom: firstCharacterIndex to: text size delta: 0 into: OrderedCollection new priorLines: Array new atY: container top! !
stef
On Sep 13, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Usman Bhatti wrote:
Hello all,
I sat with Benjamin today to have a look at Glamour performance when displaying large text files. For reminder, when displaying text in glamour, the time to display text increases exponentially with the size of the text being displayed.
Two observations:
1/ Whereas, with the following script the execution time remains equivalent to that of morphs
MessageTally spyOn: [ (GLMPluggableTextMorph on: [ (StandardFileStream fileNamed: 'testfile-glam-3500.txt') contents ] text: #value accept: nil) openInWindow extent: (1273.0@738.0) ]
the execution of this script is four times longer:
| browser text| browser := GLMTabulator new. browser column: #text. browser transmit to: #text; andShow: [ :a | a text title: 'Text with selection'; display: [(StandardFileStream fileNamed: 'testfile-glam-3500.txt') contents]]. MessageTally spyOn: [browser openOn: 2].
2/ A bit of digging (using time profiler) shows that the garbage collector is taking 75% of the execution time. <image.png>
Doru, will you have an idea what makes garbage collector execute and take extra seconds when the text is displayed in a glamour browser instead of individual glmaour widget?
The moose image with the scripts can be found here if you want to have a look. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11804892/glamour-perf-tests.zip
thanx in advance,
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