From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 10:15:24 EDT
--- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net> wrote:
>
> The updateBackgroundColor mechanism seems to be very
> seriously
> flawed and needs to be rewritten, as it is one of
> the main bottlenecks
> in the code.
>
> The problem is this: the various calls to
> updateBackgroundColor()
> propagate down to the run level, where
> fp_Run::updateBackgroundColor() querries the
> PieceTable (!!!) for
> the background colour property. This is not the way
> it should be --
> *the only* place the runs should ever querry the PT
> for properties is
> ::lookupProperties() which in turn is only to be
> called in response to
> formatting changes in the PT.
>
> If the background colour needs to change because the
> PT has
> changed, then let it be done in ::_lookupProperties;
> if the PT has not
> changed, then the updateBackground colour has no
> business of
> querring the PT. So my question is why do we need
> updateBackground() colour at all?
I don't aim to reply such a transcendental question,
but I have a fix to remove almost all the
updateBackground() calls in my computer.
Basically, we call it each time a run changes from one
page to another one, and due to bumpContainers, that
happens many times (remember the N^2/2 factor that I
explained some time ago).
I remove these calls (along with other superfluous
calls) if we move a run from page a to page b, and
page a and page b both have the same width and the
same color. If that happens I not only cut
updateBackground, but also some other
fp_Line::setMaxWidthIDontRememberTheExactName stuff
(that afair was also doing some fp_Run calls).
That + a little cache in fp_Run to handle the obvious
case where the new page changes the width, but keeps
the same color removes all the superflous calls to
updateBackgroundColor.
I will try to sync my tree with cvs asap.
Btw, can somebody please increase a bit the frecuency
of the cvs snapshots? 1 day is a bit too long...
Cheers,
=====
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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