GNU bug report logs - #15876
24.3.50; Highly degraded performance between rev 114715 and 115006

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Message #56 received at 15876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: sva-news <at> mygooglest.com, 15876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15876: 24.3.50;
 Highly degraded performance between rev 114715 and 115006
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 05:53:36 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:47:52 -0500
> Cc: 15876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > ;; highlight trailing whitespaces in all modes
> > (setq-default show-trailing-whitespace t)
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Can you try to compare the performance of revision 114849 and
> revision 114848?  The difference between the two is that the region
> highlighting was moved from C to Elisp.  This usually shouldn't affect
> performance, but maybe there's some interaction with redisplay
> that ends up disabling most optimizations?

The old region highlighting code was also an optimization killer.
Besides, no disabled optimizations should ever have such a terrible
effect.  It's most probably a bug.

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