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thing-at-point, source of slowness

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23569: thing-at-point, source of slowness
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 08:42:54 +0200

On 18.05.2016 19:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:59:41 +0200
>>
>> Suggest to jump first at the beginning, as backward move might be slow.
> Can you tell why?  AFAIK, moving back is no slower than moving
> forward.

Referring to non-greedy behaviour of re-search-backward. Which requires 
additional checks WRT to a greedy-like match.

After all, it doesn't seem that important, as implemented forms don't 
use re-search.

Remains the to-and-fro issue.

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