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Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:37:27 -0400

>> Just a curious question: How did we arrive at the current value of
>> `long-line-threshold'?
> I took the same value that Stefan had chosen for syntax-wholeline-max.

For the record, I chose 10K based on ... a wild guess that a 10K is
"definitely" in the camp of "very long lines" (it's not just a normal
line that happens to be a bit long) yet at the same time it is hopefully
short enough that it shouldn't take too much time to process.


        Stefan

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