Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Viewing code in Gerrit

From: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:21:49 -0400
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:55 AM,  <mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can't consistently view the code of patches submitted to Gerrit (the
> Side-by-Side or Unified links).  I've tried on IE8 and 9 as well as Firefox
> v28 (all on Windows) and get the same consistently inconsistent results
> (some patches work, some don't.  Some files within a particular patch are
> viewable, others aren't).  The message I get on both browsers amounts to
> "script too busy, want to stop it?".  Selecting "no" just puts me in a
> forever loop with that message.

I am also hitting this, see my comment at the bottom of [1].

In summary: the diff is computed locally in javascript, and seems to
be worse than O(n) on the size of the underlying file; viewing the
diff for any file >1k lines may be slow, but if you just let it run it
will finish eventually. Avoid epan/enterprise-numbers and other files
with 100k+ lines, they take many minutes to finish.

I *think* it's a Gerrit bug, given that it seems to happen across many browsers.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=842623

> Any suggestions?  Browser option I don't have enabled?  Somehow upgrade
> JavaScript version? I believe I have mostly "default" settings for all
> browsers.
>
> And in a related issue (of annoyingness), typing "Enter" in the Gerrit
> comments section results in a new line when I'm typing the comment, but not
> when it's displayed (making some of my comments much harder to read).  Is
> this another "browser feature"?  I haven't noticed it with other user
> comments so I thought I must be doing something wrong.

I believe it's parsed markdown/wiki style - single linebreaks are
removed, but doubled ones are preserved.