GNU bug report logs - #2963
wishlist: improve speed of `make-overlay'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:10:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 26051

Found in version 25.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>
Cc: Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org>, 2963 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2963: wishlist: improve speed of `make-overlay'
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 23:04:51 +0200

Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The complexity of `make-overlay' appears to be O(N), which makes it
> unbearably slow for larger buffers.

Andreas did a lot of work on reimplementing the overlay internals a few
years back -- but I see that it was never merged?

Andreas, what's the state of the feature/noverlay branch?

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