Sluggish defining [Fixed 3.3 b787 pre-release]

[wangyijie]

Hi everyone,

 

I've had this problem with the "define" function for a while, which is, every time I try to define a word or especially a phrase, typing becomes sluggish. I guess it's because Alfred is processing a lot of words in the dictionary, but actually I've never had such problems when I do any other kinds of searches with Alfred, even if there's also a lot of stuff to process. Can anybody help? Thanks a lot!

 

OS X version: El Capitan 10.11.6

Alfred version: 3.2, build 759

Edited November 27, 2016 by wangyijie

[wangyijie]

Can anybody help, please?

[Andrew]

@wangyijie I'm not seeing sluggish behaviour here - what spec Mac do you have, and how many dictionaries / languages do you have installed?

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[wangyijie]

@Andrew Thanks for your reply! Here's the spec of my Mac:

 

CPU: 2.2 GHz Inter Core i7

RAM: 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Harddrive: SSD

 

I've got 6 dictionaries in my app... I don't really think my Mac is too slow for them, though.

PS: This problem only happens with Alfred, when I'm typing words; I can type the same word quite smoothly, in the search bar of the Dictionary app.

[Andrew]

@wangyijie Dictionary is only showing one definition at a time, Alfred is showing you the definition for every visible word. How much latency are you seeing?

[wangyijie]

@Andrew I've just recorded a gif but unfortunately it's too big to upload here... so I uploaded it here: http://www.giphy.com/gifs/3o7TKuDcAI0BJuOFqw

 

Not sure if you can see it. This is an example, sometimes it doesn't take such a long word for it to be slow. Really confusing.

Edited December 4, 2016 by wangyijie

[wangyijie]

@Andrew and this: 

[Andrew]

@wangyijie Thanks, with 'slow motion' or 'take your time' I can see a tiny bit of latency on my Mac - I'll add a ticket to see what I can do to eradicate this 

[wendellpbloyd]

I confirm this behaviour too (I pass by to make quite the same post myself)! I don't know if it is because alfred become generally slower or is this specific function, but there's definitively something wrong with 'define' lately!

[Andrew]

@wendellpbloyd Alfred 3 should be faster than ever, the define function itself is being held up by a macOS API. I have a ticket to move the API access off the main thread which will make things more responsive

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[Andrew]

If you update to the 3.3 b787 pre-release, this should now be sorted