GNU bug report logs - #46859
28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines in xref.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 20:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #161 received at 46859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: 46859 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46859: 28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines in
 xref.el
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 16:07:53 +0200

On 06.03.2021 14:49, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> 
>>> Just tried 'exact, it works, it's slow (but not horribly slow: 1.2 
>>> seconds on that 25 MB file)
>>
>> 1.2s is pretty slow for this purpose.
>>
> 
> It is: (1) on a 25 MB file (not the typical case), (2) on a file with an 
> exotic encoding (not a typical case either).  On typical files (UTF-8 or 
> single byte encoding) the delay is not noticeable (a few milliseconds).

A few milliseconds is much better, as long as we're not too mistaken 
about the set of "typical files". Or we'd be exchanging one set of 
tradeoffs for another.
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