Thanks for the nice patch, seems to work well.

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Christoph Cullmann


Am Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2001 14:46 schrieb Martin Schenk:
> The last big performance problem in kwrite is the use of
> QFontMetrics::width to calculate the width of characters.
>
> I implemented a class CachedFontMetrics, inheriting from
> QFontMetrics, that caches the width of characters.
>
> For memory efficiency, this class allocates memory by
> Unicode-Row (256 characters) - ASCII text only needs
> row 0, so only that is allocated. When using other character
> sets, the needed rows are dynamically allocated.
>
> Using this class, changing the font from "courier new"
> to "arial" on 800K text takes less than 1 second, compared
> to about 10 seconds the old way. As this example shows,
> this speedup also works with proportional fonts, in contrast
> to the (currently unused) Attribute::width speedup.

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