[Development] Backporting QTextLayout Performance Improvements to Qt4

[Knoll Lars]

Yes, once the patch is in 5.x and it affects 4.8 as well, it¹s usually ok
to back port.

Cheers,
Lars

On 18.11.13 11:06, "Milian Wolff" <mail at milianw.de> wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I'd like to ask again whether I could backport some performance
>improvements 
>in QTextLayout/QTextEngine from Qt5 to Qt4.
>
>Most notably there is https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,34112
>which 
>effects us in Kate/KDE as outlined here:
>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225228
>
>The changeset above was merged in Qt5 and matured there, see
>https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,34118
>
>What I propose is to sync the current status of QTextLayout/QTextEngine
>from 
>Qt5, put it into a patchset for Qt4 and get it into the next Qt4 release.
>
>Would this be accepted? Or is there still a policy which forbids
>performance 
>improvements to be merged into Qt4? Considering that the above makes the
>Kate 
>editor practically useless for some files (freezes for multiple minutes),
>I 
>personally see this as a bug fix anyways...
>
>Bye
>-- 
>Milian Wolff
>mail at milianw.de
>http://milianw.de
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