[Uim] Re: Massive slowdown after revision 129

[YamaKen]

At Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:25:44 +0900,
yamaken at bp.iij4u.or.jp wrote:
> At Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:29:07 +0900,
> ekato at ees.hokudai.ac.jp wrote:
> > I checked the behavior in r129 and I found that one to three GC occur
> > with every key press in the revision.  This seems to causes the
> > massive slowdown.
> > 
> > With r128, GC occurs once per 20 to 55 key presses.
> > With r146 (I now updated from r134), it occurs one per 4 to 11.
> > 
> > Isn't it related to memory usage of the interpreter and the plugin
> > system?  r146 has usable responsiveness for me, but it is still slower
> > than r128.
> 
> I've now understood what you felt in r143. Yes, my tuning may
> affect performance for such situation.
> 
> After testing r146, I've found two distinct problems.
> 
> 1. too short GC cycle (since r143)
> 2. massive slowdown (since r129?)
> 
> I'll resolve 1. soon.
> 
> And I also fix 2. which causes exponential slowdown by
> autorepeating a hundreds of kana-char in uim-skk. It seems to be
> caused by improper memory consumption.

I've resolved the 1. by r147. But for memory consumption vs GC
frequency tradeoff, GC frequency is tuned more than r128. Try
it.

2. is my misunderstanding. It's not from uim but from wordwrap
feature of text widget of GTK. Breaking long japanese-word line
makes the slowdown away.

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YamaKen  yamaken at bp.iij4u.or.jp