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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    Re: Modes
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2007-07-06 22:07:19
Message-ID: f6meen$ipu$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Dominik Haumann wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2007, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>> Dominik Haumann wrote:
>>> In other words: we have 140 * (count of wildcards per file) regular
>>> expressions for every opened file. Starting a session with 14 files
>>> the regular expression takes roughly 65% of the kate startup process.
>>>
>>> How do we fix that? We have to check the wildcards after all to figure
>>> out which mode we have to load... ;)
>>
>> Assuming all the wildcards are plain file extensions like
>> "*.css" and not generic filters like ".bash*" that code
>> could be changed to an extension-to-mode map. That would
>> do binary instead of linear search. The map has to be build
>>from the filters only once.
> 
> That's not the case, especially because the user also can change this 
> dynamically ;)

Right, if you hadn't said something, I would have, I'm pretty sure I've 
used such types. :-)

Do they need to be regular expressions, though? (*Are* they?) Or are 
they very basic globbing expressions, in which case I would hope 
something much faster than a regexpr match can be used?

-- 
Matthew
"Resistance is futile" -- Borg
"No, resistance is the reciprocal of conductance" -- Dave Korn

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