LyX 2.4.0

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 12/2/21 07:21, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 02/12/2021 à 11:39, Yuriy Skalko a écrit :
>> I'm working on implementing branch expressions that was discussed 
>> here: 
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg216485.html
>> Seems like this can be done even without file format change, so it 
>> can go/backport to 2.4 later.
>
> I do not see how this can be done without a format change. How will 
> old 2.4.x version read the brand-new branch expressions?
>
>> Also I support the "unpopular proposal" from Jean-Marc. LyX is 
>> frequently used for highly-structured documents with large insets and 
>> improvements in breakrows branch would be very desirable in new version.
>
> I do not want to hype the new branch too much. While (from memory) we 
> see a 40% improvement, this is not the order of magnitude improvement 
> that would be needed for these large insets. That will require a 
> different set of optimizations.
>
> Other than that, this is a good code cleanup that moves IMO in the 
> right direction. We can build on that, in particular the extension of 
> the inset rowFlag to let each inset describe it display behavior.

I assume the issue is that this would require testing and so possibly 
show things down?

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