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Authored by: SOX on May 16, '07 09:04:02AM

BBedit has a number of things that can slow it down. A big one is frequently background the checks it does to see if a file currently being edited has changed on disk. This gets particularly pernicious if there is some slow filesystem mounted.



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Authored by: Fairly on May 21, '07 02:45:52PM

Another big thing is that its code is old. It's not native to Mac OS X.



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Authored by: rmsiegel on May 22, '07 05:35:19AM

Another big thing is that its code is old.

Code doesn't slow down as it ages. :-) In fact, applications that have been around for a while tend to be very highly tuned as the result of years of successive refinement and optimization. "New and shiny" is not always better than "seasoned and mature".

It's not native to Mac OS X.

How do you know this; do you have access to the source code? I only ask because BBEdit's been around a very long time, and it's every inch a native Mac OS X application. So to say that it's "not native to Mac OS X" suggests that you have intimate knowledge of the innermost construction of the software. Do you?

To the original question: if something's not working the way you think it should, you can always ask for help from the people who wrote the software :-). I wouldn't want to speculate on the origin of the original symptoms without more information...



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Authored by: rmsiegel on May 22, '07 05:41:48AM

BBedit has a number of things that can slow it down. A big one is frequently background the checks it does to see if a file currently being edited has changed on disk. This gets particularly pernicious if there is some slow filesystem mounted.

BBEdit doesn't check for file changes while you type. In the "Application" preferences (in BBEdit 8.5 and later; they're elsewhere in older versions) there is a collection of settings that controls when BBEdit verifies open files. "As you type" is not among the options. However, if turning off one or more of these settings solves your observed symptoms, far be it from me to complain. :-)



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