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Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns

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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>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:56:11 +0000

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>> Given your and Dmitry's feedback, I just tried to add an explicit call 
>> to (syntax-ppss (point-max)), without narrowing, when the buffer is 
>> opened (see below).
>> 
>> The problem is that this is, as I said, slow.  On my laptop, opening a 
>> 1 GB file takes about 6 seconds.  The call to syntax-ppss adds 70 
>> seconds, so opening a large file becomes an order of magnitude slower 
>> (13 times slower).  Which I think is too much for the added benefit.
>
> But that only has to happen when the buffer is scrolled to the bottom, 
> right?
>

No, it happens when the buffer is opened.  Given the importance that you 
and Stefan seem to give to that function, it is, with the patch I sent in 
my previous post, called once on the whole buffer (without any narrowing) 
when the file is opened.  Later calls (inside fontification-functions or 
post-command-hook) are subject to a forced narrowing.

>
> And syntax-ppss's speed depends on the rules applied by the particular 
> major mode. Those could be sped up. Some optimization of this function's 
> speed is not out of the question either.
>

They would be more than welcome.  In fact, without such optimizations, it 
would be unreasonable to do what the patch does.

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