Re: lazy-lock vs. jit-lock

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 29.12.2005 um 08:03 schrieb Ian Zimmerman:

> Can anyone comment on the relative advantages of these kinds of
> font-locking?  jit-lock seems to be the default in Emacs 21.4, but I
> fount that in some buffers (not necessarily large ones) whole chunks 
> are
> left unfontified.  Waiting for them to be "stealthily" fontified also
> doesn't help; only font-lock-fontify-buffer does.

jit means just in time -- since modern CPUs are so fast, jit-lock is 
too slow. I think that's jit-lock's story: being helpful on slow 
computers. I seem to remember that it was recommended not to use 
jit-lock any more because it could be removed some day. (I too switched 
off jit-lock some months or years ago.)

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