Text Selection Speed

[Koos Vriezen]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> Probably. Anyway, I'm not too happy about this caching idea :) I've thought
> long about this, but I always found cases where it broke :/
>
> I wonder if there isn't a way to make the actual lookup faster. Its still
> not optimized at all. One obvious way would be to reduce the number of
> lookups. like tracking the mouse position only 20 times per second or so,
> instead of instant like now.

I also thought about a recovery of cache failures, adding a time-to-live
(no more than 100 hits and no longer than .5 s) to it. Don't know if
limiting 20/s mouse tracking would speed up text selection. This needs
testing....

Koos