outline pane issues and huge note slowness

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On Monday, October 25, 2021, 02:21:38 PM GMT+3, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org> wrote: 





Good. Did you configure with "--enable-build-type=prof" ? This is 
important because by default master will compile with some run-time 
checks that lower the performance.




I didn't know that key. Thank you. I compiled master (without breakrows) with it and strangely huge insets were noticeable more slow than without it. Maybe some master updates changed performance, or this key.

> "git pull features breakrows"
> After that I compiled Lyx with autogen etc.


> Hugenotes are slow, similar to master, maybe a tad better. And I doubt – maybe it is master without breakrows branch. I don't see anything about that branch in Lyx info. Version info:

If it is the breakrow branch, then "git log" will start like:

commit 5f33a0ea1971e924c4959b9a003ed548871153ab (HEAD -> breakrows, 
features/breakrows)
Author: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org>
Date:  Tue Oct 12 11:33:23 2021 +0200

    One less thing to do in PAINTING_ANALYSIS


It is disappointing that the situation is not better. However, I am not 
able to reproduce you problem on my system, and I do not understand why. 
My core i7 7700T is not fundamentally faster than your core i7 6600U.

If you have some more time, we can try to find out why it is not that 
fast. To do that, the idea would be to run a profiler like hotspot. Do 
you have any experience with that?

Unfortunately, I did not find a way to let you send me the full profiler 
data, since it depends of the precise version of all the components of 
your system.




HEAD was master, not breakrows. I don't know what was wrong, so I deleted Lyx git folder on my machine and cloned Lyx from git anew. After that compiled master with --enable-build-type=prof – huge notes were very slow, almost stalled. I compiled breakrows branch with --enable-build-type=prof and huge notes are usable. Performance is much better than it was in master. There is some, how to say, jerking, lagging when scrolling, scrolling isn't smooth, there is a lag, but I can scroll insets almost freely. This is huge progress. Maybe master waits it :).

I can help with testing (not this week though). I don't know anything about profiler, but installed Hotspot, launched lyxgit (that is my prefix of master Lyx) with default parameters. Now I have 56 MiB perf.data file. Versions of packages are there, I think (except those from Arch linux Aur), if you need that information: https://lists.manjaro.org/pipermail/manjaro-packages/Week-of-Mon-20211011/042684.html 
There is parser errors like "Module "libQt5Gui.so.5.15.2" is missing 1587 of 2089 debug symbols." and so on. So I can send perf.data file to you.

Valdemaras