Re: Improving AbiWord's PT

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> So I can see two ways to go forward. We can work around not actually
> calling cleanFrags on every insertion or we can attempt to implement
> the
> more sophisticated PieceTable described by Joaquin.
>
> I would rather attempt to do the more sophisticated PieceTable. It
> would substantially improve AbiWord's performance for large documents.

agreed++.

I'd do it in a different branch from the current table layout branch
though. The two problems are 'unrelated', and even without the PT
improvements, we'd want Aditya's new layout algorithm.

> BTW I'm going to forward this discussion to the abiword ML.
>
> This is very interesting work Aditya!

Agreed again, rock on!

  Marc

> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
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>
> So there it is folks. Maybe the time has come to attempt Joaquin's PieceTable.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Martin
Received on Wed Jun 3 10:48:33 2009