GNU bug report logs - #56682
Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>

Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #1009 received at 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 15:19:45 +0300

On 05.08.2022 11:23, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> No, because the point of considering extreme cases is that they reveal 
> on your computer what happens on other people's less powerful computers 
> with much smaller files.

The problem with considering extreme cases, however, is that one can 
also provide an even more extreme case no matter how we optimize our 
implementations, which, with the chosen approach, will force us to 
cripple or drop most features outright.
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