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Make diff-auto-refine-mode refine from jit/font-lock

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Message #31 received at 12747 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 12747 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#12747: 23.4; diff-auto-refine-mode process only last hunk in
 diff (must ALL).
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:54:42 -0400

On 12 July 2018 at 09:28, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> This reminds that magit users found binding write-region-inhibit-fsync
>> around smerge-refine-regions made a noticable performance difference.
>> So should we add something like this?
>
> Sounds good, yes (tho I'm surprised it'd make much of a difference,
> when your /tmp is on some kind of tmpfs).  If you can add a URL
> pointing to the discussion where they found the noticable performance
> difference, that'd be even better.

Hmm, actually there wasn't that much discussion about it, one person
reported it made a big difference:

https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/2834

There was previous discussion about smerge refinement being slow, but
nobody narrowed it down to fsync in particular, and the conclusion
there was just "call smerge-refine-subst less".

https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/1581

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