Subject: 25.0.92; font-lock-ensure is too slow
From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:49:09 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Example:

Open xdisp.c, navigate to the first line. Evaluate:

(load "jit-lock")
(benchmark 1000 '(font-lock-ensure (line-beginning-position)
                                   (line-end-position)))

=> 0.66s

Which puts a dampener on the idea of syntax highlighting xref results in
the open files.

With the patch below, the benchmark executes 100 times faster.
OK to apply?

diff --git a/lisp/jit-lock.el b/lisp/jit-lock.el
index 810c220..a582c48 100644
--- a/lisp/jit-lock.el
+++ b/lisp/jit-lock.el
@@ -387,10 +387,11 @@ jit-lock-fontify-now
 	 ;; Fontify chunks beginning at START.  The end of a
 	 ;; chunk is either `end', or the start of a region
 	 ;; before `end' that has already been fontified.
-	 (while (and start (< start end))
-	   ;; Determine the end of this chunk.
-	   (setq next (or (text-property-any start end 'fontified t)
-			  end))
+	 (while (and start
+                     (< start
+                        ;; Determine the end of this chunk.
+                        (setq next (or (text-property-any start end 'fontified t)
+                                       end))))
 
 	   ;; Fontify the chunk, and mark it as fontified.
 	   ;; We mark it first, to make sure that we don't indefinitely

In GNU Emacs 25.0.92.12 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.16.7)
 of 2016-04-10 built on axl
Repository revision: 20686f7a6430ef37f17b3866f14e7dc3095c1524
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11702000
System Description:	Ubuntu 15.10