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

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Message #2175 received at 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#56682: feature/improved-locked-narrowing 9dee6df39c: Reworked
 locked narrowing.
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 00:25:00 +0200

On 31/01/2023 23:46, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Speaking of additional slowdowns, though, at least in theory -- both
>> syntax-ppss and tree-sitter drop their current parse result when point-min
>> changes.
> FWIW, `syntax-ppss` keeps 2 caches: one for point-min=1 and one for the
> other cases.  So narrowing doesn't quite "drop the current parse", it
> just temporarily ignores it, but recovers it when we exit the narrowing.

Take the scenario for scrolling through a whole file. When the file 
reaches a certain length, the current scheme is to narrow, linearly, to 
successive text chunks of size N, and fontify them.

And since for every chunk point-min will have a new value, it will have 
to re-parse the text from the beginning of the chunk. Even if the cache 
exists already for the whole (unrestricted) buffer.

And even if syntax-ppss-max-span is lower than N (which it currently is 
by default, 20000 vs 500000).

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