performance, flow of work, system load,

[newbie-02]

sorry, this is a more complex question ... and about observations and assumptions rather than knowledge.

observing the fan of my computer and my 'CPU-meter' it looks that AsciidocFX is quite power intense ... I get the impression as if again and again the whole text is read and worked through, even if I only change one character in a word. And becomes slow in long documents.

That sounds counter-intuitive to the task to be performed.

• have a text,
• have a cursor position in it around which we need display on screen,
• have a list - excerpt - with formatting directives and positions from - to which they should work, -- first derived from the text, later can be inserted and deleted in the list when relevant changes in the text,
• take a meaningful long part of text around cursor position,
• format and display acc. formatting directives affecting it,
• work in that window,
• sliding up and down as needed,
• take formatting info from excerpt rather than re-read the whole text,
• change excerpt list when changing formatting directives in the text,
• from time to time re-check or re-fresh excerpt list acc. text.

Assume ... just assume ... AsciidocFX doesn't work that way as of now, and assume it could have better performance, less system load?

[newbie-02]

For example: inserting 1 character in a line with no special formatting in a 400k document causes 33 seconds of about 50% CPU load and 50% mem usage on a 3.2 GHz Xeon 4-core machine with 64 GB ram. In my opinion, that is considerable overkill. I think that concepts are used here that are not important for short texts, but do not scale well when the size of the texts increases. Evtl. AsciidocFX should have a hint in documentation up to which size / complexity one could expect it to work well, and where one goes into risk / slowness.

[rahmanusta]

Too much expectations, there is no such work capacity / financial background to meet your expectations.

I use AsciidocFX with Mac which works smooth and never noticed a performance problem. I even don’t have a windows machine to check how that works on Windows.