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bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:23:55 +0000



Before using a blunt tool like the forced-narrowing now in `feature/long-lines-and-font-locking`, I think we should try and figure out *why* the recipe below is so slow.


It's not a blunt tool, it's an appropriate tool to help making sure that Emacs remains responsive when large files are visited. Think of it as POSIX's ulimits. Allowing fontification-functions to search for arbitrarily complex regexpes in an arbitrarily large buffer, each and every time they are asked to to highlight a small chunk of the said buffer, is a recipe for disaster. If for some reason modes really need to go through to the whole buffer to decide which highlighting to use, they should to do so outside of fontification-functions, and ideally once, for example, when the file is loaded.

(Note that at the moment that tool is enabled only when files with long lines are visited.)





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