Re: The performance of Editplus is much better than notepad,Why?



Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:

<hate to snip what is worth while>

And here is my experience...

I had a report generator that was starting to feel klugey. So for the last major upgrade I rewrote the engine. (And of course, the engine doesn't know anything about my product. I knew I would have to version the client's projects, but felt it was worth it.)

My goal was a more robust and versatile engine. There were a couple of performance issues but that was not the goal. Funny thing is that when it was done, it was a good three or more times faster than the previous version. It may have been two if I had not given the performance attention? Was it worth it? I'd say yes. (Keep in mind it was not the reason for the rewrite.) I have clients that will produce reports that are up to 1000 pages. It takes time to build containers that will random access big reports.

My point would be that performance is secondary. (And not memory, not worth it. I agree.) But that writing more robust code, first, will yield performance in a natural way. It may be that if the writer focuses on the wrong objective it would be a lot like hitting your thumb with a hammer repeatedly.

(BTW, my first machine was an Apple One and memory was precious!)

Best, Dan.

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