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

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Message #1402 received at 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
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: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 16:16:42 +0000

>
> The alternative, of course, is to pay the price of syntax-ppss on larger 
> spans and wait the corresponding amount of time the first time the user 
> scrolls to EOB.
>

Or to speed up syntax-ppss in a way or another.

>
> But as Gregory shows, when you get to _really_ large files (like 1 GB 
> JSON file in his example), pressing M-> will still make you wait (I have 
> to wait around 20 seconds).
>

Or when you have a slower CPU, with moderately large files.

>
> But being able to choose this approach (in the absence of better 
> upcoming alternatives) is a good thing.
>

The problem is (again) that what you would like does not provide any 
protection against modes which use widen inside their fontification 
routines.

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