[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Word count dialog modeless

[Kevin Hunter]

At 12:51pm -0500 Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Astron wrote:
> On 15 November 2011 19:15, Michael Meeks wrote:
>> :-) sounds reasonable. My only concern would be to make it
>> discoverable and of course performance: would we take a
>> per-keystroke hit there ? so perhaps having it easy-to-enable but
>> disabled by default would make sense.
>
> How large is the hit? Has anyone measured already? Personally, I
> can't really perceive anything when comparing writing with the Word
> Count window open v/ without it.

It seems to me to be an issue of how one implements the word count 
statistics collection.  Are the word count statistics constantly kept 
up-to-date via a incrementers/decrementers per key-stroke?  Or are they 
only collected upon request?

 From a brief and unscientific test of copying 10MiB of copy and paste 
text into a Writer document, waiting while it paginates to 2250 pages, 
then timing how long it takes for the Word Count dialog to give results, 
it would appear the former: every keystroke /already/ calculates the 
these statistics.

Thus, my first un-educated guess is that this should have very little 
performance impact.

Cheers,

Kevin