Bug 49399 - Writer, select text with keyboard is slow in large documents.
Summary: Writer, select text with keyboard is slow in large documents.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.3 release
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Windows (All)
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Reported: 2012-05-02 12:35 UTC by Jamee Mikell
Modified: 2013-07-08 21:21 UTC (History)
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Large document for selection testing (62.29 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2012-05-02 12:35 UTC, Jamee Mikell
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Description Jamee Mikell 2012-05-02 12:35:12 UTC
Created attachment 60920 [details]
Large document for selection testing

** System **

Win7 64-bit, Core i5-480M, 8GB RAM, LO 3.5.3 (release), only English dictionaries installed. Only default extensions that come with LO are installed.

** Problem Description **

In a large (>700 page) document in Writer 3.5.3, selecting using shift+arrows is slow--approximately 4 characters per second based on a 10-second sample. (I see a CPU spike from <2% to 20% or more while selecting.) Selecting like this is a common operation for typists selecting a word or short phrase (should be a lot faster than moving a hand to grab the mouse, then repositioning it on the keyboard). 3.4.x did not exhibit this problem.

This problem seems to have a time component to it. Immediately after opening, selection performs as expected. After 5-10 minutes, selection is noticeably slower. Time varies. In the large test document (attached) slow down started after 15-20 minutes in initial tests. During this time, I tested selecting near the beginning, end, and middle initially, then test selection intermittently while writing up this bug until I saw performance problems. Test operation was move around the document, select and deselect a few times to compare performance. No copy, no paste, no cut, etc. (In the live document where I first saw this, typical operations are typical typing/editing with occasional search or search/replace.)

In subsequent tests to verify reproducability, the large document's slow selection was sometimes noticeable within 1 minute of opening compared to the smaller document and significant in less than 10 minutes. 

** Other Observations **

As a control, I copied the first 6 pages and pasted them in a new document with the same formatting, saved it, then opened both documents at once. The small document does not exhibit slow selection or a significant CPU spike even 10-15 minutes after the large document does.

The document is plain text. Margins 0.75" except top at 0.5". Header "Test Document <pg#>" right justified. Portrait orientation. ODT format. View is set as 2-columns (2 pages side by side).

Selection with left/right arrow keys shows the most pronounced performance lag, but up/down lags enough to be very noticeable. There is visible jumpiness with drag select in the test document as well.

Selection using shift and pgup/pgdn seems to perform about the in either test document (large or 6-page). Maybe slightly delayed in larger document, but the difference is tiny at worst--not like arrow key selection.

This does not seem to affect arrow or ctrl+arrow movement commands. (Or if it does is minimal.)
Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2012-05-06 07:40:41 UTC
@Jamee: if you are using changes recording, I suggest you to try again with change recording disabled.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 2 Jamee Mikell 2012-05-21 09:44:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> @Jamee: if you are using changes recording, I suggest you to try again with
> change recording disabled.
> 
> Best regards. JBF

Edit | Changes | Record was off (not checked), but Show was checked. I've been testing for a while with various settings in Edit | Changes, but these settings don't seem to affect the problem.

What else might I look at?
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2013-05-26 22:32:18 UTC
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Comment 4 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2013-05-30 20:04:35 UTC
@Jamee: did you make the same tests with LibreOffice 4.0.x ?

Best regards. JBF
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2013-07-08 21:21:33 UTC
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