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Re: lazy-lock vs. jit-lock
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: lazy-lock vs. jit-lock |
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Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:45:27 +0200 |
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:10:29 +0100
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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> 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.
It's the other way around, actually: JIT lock is The One True Way of
doing fontification (although it had some issues in v21.x, resolved
for the next release).