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Syntax Highlighting With Extra Awesome
By Dan | January 11, 2008
Since Christmas I have been rewriting the core of the syntax highlighting engine in C as Ruby just wasn’t fast enough. I was a bit apprehensive about this, but the Ruby-C interface is very nice to work with, and toss in Glib and it’s really not that painful. There’s something deeply satisfying about profiling, re-implementing a single method in C, and getting a 66% percent speedup immediately.
I’ve made a ton of fixes too and it feels much more solid. No more crashes and the speed is approaching usable. (It can do 500 lines in about 3 seconds 1 second - roughly.)
Anyway I leave you with a spot the difference competition :). Thanks to Ludvig Widman for the lovely theme.
Redcar:
Textmate:
Topics: development |
May 31st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Why not gtksourceview?
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
Because gtksourceview doesn’t read Textmate language grammars. And the rest of Textmate’s bundles (commands, snippets etc.) depend upon the grammars for context.
Gtksourceview 2.0 is a nice piece of work, but I wanted the cross-platform compatibility with the textmate.