On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 11:09:58AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Samstag, den 01.09.2018, 20:27 +1200 schrieb Andrew Parsloe: > > OK, this time I inserted a Bib(la)TeX Bibliography via Insert > > > List/TOC, using an old BibTeX .bib file I had lying around. Even a > > small > > trial document is noticeably slower for things like starting a new > > paragraph, although the delay is more like quarter to half a second > > rather than the 2 to 4 seconds you report. Nonetheless it's still > > noticeable. > > The crucial info we need is what makes this so slow only on Windows > (and not on any other OS). Can we do profiling on Win? > > Just a shot in the dark: If you enable the "Files" debug output in View > > Messages, is there any indication that (attempts to) file removal > (aux file and/or bbl file) take your time? I am just guessing that > removeBiblioTempFiles() (involved in the BibinfoCache invalidation) > might be the culprit, since it involves QFile, and this is an obvious > candidate for OS-specific weirdness.
Using the --verbose switch it can be seen that each time a new paragraph is started LyX runs kpsewhich for each bibtex catalog to be found in the texmf tree. So, if you have 5 catalogs, kpsewhich is run for 5 times everytime you hit the Enter key. This was not the case in 2.3.0. -- Enrico
