Subject: bug#58558: 29.0.50; re-search-forward is slow in some buffers

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 12:05:42 +0200

10 apr. 2023 kl. 11.57 skrev Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>:

> Generating agenda with Emacs master + your patch:
> 
> :regexp-cache-hit: 6225399 :regexp-cache-miss: 109490
> 
> Emacs 28.3 + your patch:
> :regexp-cache-hit: 4968571 :regexp-cache-miss: 79637

Those miss rates are similar (1.7 % and 1.5 %, respectively) although rather higher than we'd like. Probably no serious regexp cache thrashing going on then, but it was good to be able to exclude it, thank you for humouring me!

> Also, I tried to play around with increasing REGEXP_CACHE_SIZE in the
> past. It does not make noticeable difference in my setup.

Right, that's consistent with the data collected above.