set the textstyle is dramatically slower on 7.0.1 than 5.5

[Bernard Devlin]

I switched to getting the htmlText and putting tags round the text I want.

Even on LC 7.0 with 4000 lines each containing the word to style, this only
takes less than 1 second.

Bernard

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using this kind of processing in a loop is extremely fast on 5.5:
>
> set the textstyle["box"] of char x to y of fld 1 to true
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> On 7.0.1 it goes at a snail's pace.
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> I haven't bothered to do any benchmarks yet, just wondered if anyone else
> has noticed this (or is it another of these things peculiar to me). I would
> estimate that 7.0.1 is 10x slower than 5.5.  It is a very significant slow
> down.
>
> I searched RQCC and I can find no bug report relating to this.
>
> Bernard
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