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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns |
Date: | Sun, 31 Jul 2022 10:50:18 +0000 |
Emacs is not in the business of preventing people from shooting themselves in the foot. If we need this narrowing to be enforced because Emacs would otherwise crash, then it's OK, but if not, then we *should* provide a way to undo it.
And how do you define "crash"? Is Emacs becoming unresponsive because an operation takes say two minutes to complete and cannot be interrupted a "crash"? Or is a "crash" only a segfault?
BTW, my tests show that syntax-ppss can be rather slow, when the file is large enough (say 1 GB).No doubt. But it's no slower with long lines than with short lines.
Yes, I wasn't clear enough, I should have written "when the file is large enough (say 1 GB), even without long lines".
But you didn't answer my question: is it not possible to design a version of syntax-ppss that would approximate, with some heuristics, what syntax-ppss does, but on a smaller chunk of the buffer? With such a syntax-ppss-approximate function, we could do something like
(defun syntax-ppss (args) (if (narrow-to-region-locked) (syntax-ppss-approximage args) (syntax-ppss-accurate args)))
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