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Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells.

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Am 23.05.2011 12:24, schrieb István Zachar:
> Dear Bernie,
> 
> the same performance drop is present under Win7 (64bit, Mathematica
> 8.0.1).
not necessarily...
I've made a large output cell with "Expand[(1+x)^100] and entered "a+17
-mc^2" and every keystroke had an immediate effect.

This is Win7 HomePremium Sp1 64 Bit and Mathematica from February 2011
(8.0.1)

I tried it with Expand[(1+x)^1000] and got the same effect.

> Even if you distribute your functions to separate cells, functional
> programming is about feeding the result of a step directly to the
> next, meaning that you might end up with a very complex program that
> happens to take one single (though enormous) cell. For me, it usually
> happens.
> It would be nice to have a palette via the user can quickly switch
> syntax coloring on/off for the given notebook. Once I've tried to do
> this, though I ended up with a palette that switched off syntax
> coloring for every open notebook except the one in focus. Anyone else
> made more success?
> 
> Istvan
> 
> 
> On May 22, 12:55 pm, BernieTheJet <berniethe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have some functions that are very long and complicated and which
>> take up many lines of a single cell.  For one particularly long such
>> function it can take about 3 second for EACH new character that I type
>> to appear in the cell.  What ends up happening is I go type a
>> sentence, wait a minute for it to appear on screen, then go back to do
>> whatever editing of my typos.  Needless to say this is a bit
>> aggravating.  I expect it is related to the various syntax checking
>> features that Mathematica now has.  Features that I otherwise really li=
> ke,
>> actually.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any work around, or if this is only present on
>> WinXP?  I have this problem in both 7 and 8.0.0, for both 32 and 64
>> bit windowz, I believe.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bernard
> 
> 

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Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. BernieTheJet <berniethejet@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 10:55 +0000
  Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. István Zachar <replicatorzed@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 10:24 +0000
    Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. Peter Pein <petsie@dordos.net> - 2011-05-24 09:59 +0000
      Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. BernieTheJet <berniethejet@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 09:57 +0000
  Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. Albert Retey <awnl@gmx-topmail.de> - 2011-05-23 10:27 +0000
  Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk> - 2011-05-23 12:41 +0000
    Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. BernieTheJet <berniethejet@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 09:58 +0000

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