Subject: Re: bug#12796: Optimize `ido-completing-read' for larger lists with flex matching enabled

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:57:25 +0400

Leo <[email-masked]> writes:

 > On 2012-11-04 13:58 +0800, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
 >> Any objections?
 >
 > This is special-cased optimisation which doesn't address the root cause
 > of the slowness. We need a better solution.

And the root cause is..?

Doing some sort of preprocessing on the candidates list comes to mind
(search tree?), but I don't immediately see a way of doing that for flex
matching.