LyX 2.4.2 Released

[mkriele at me.com]

> On 6 Oct 2024, at 22:59, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes.lyx.org at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> Le 06/10/2024 à 22:17, mkriele--- via lyx-users a écrit :
>> Dear developers
>> I just wanted to drop you a line to tell you how much I appreciate this release.  We have been treated to many great releases of Lyx, and  2.4 was really impressive. But for me personally, this release made all the difference.  A few years ago I bought a diminutive  "surface go" in order to work with lyx while travelling  light. It did work, but it was so slow that sometimes I would type whole words, which would only appear on screen after I had finished typing them.   It would be worse when I also deleted a character in between as due to the  lag something else could be deleted.  I lived with it because I love LyX and I could not think of any alternative hardware which would have been equally small but powerful enough. 2.4.2 changed this experience completely. Now hitting a key on this little thing has instantaneous effect on the screen. even though I am using.a machine which would have been considered slow more than 10 years ago. To me 2.4.2 is a change like day and night.
> 
> Dear Marcus,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your feedback. It is this kind of comments that makes our work worth it.
> 
> I am very happy that this performance work was useful to at least one person. I was worried that it came too late and that nobody would have the machines that make the changes useful: on my correct but 5+ years old machines, the changes make no difference.
> 
> Now, if you can tell me what is still slow, we might be able to improve the situation a bit more!
> 
> Have fun with LyX,
> JMarc
> 

Dear Jean-Marc

Thanks for your offer to look even more into speed. To be honest, for me speed is perfectly fine now.  Cut & copy does have a small lag (about a second)  and find & replace in math a lag of perhaps 2 second when successive replacements are nearby. But I can’t say that this bothers me at all, because I don’t use this much when I am in a train, and at home I have a proper laptop, where I never hat any Lyx related speed issue. I also believe that my small, almost 6 year old travel computer has a very slow chip by any recent standards (it was marketed as Pentium).

I am absolutely happy with the speed you have achieved! 

Thanks and all the best, Marcus