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29.0.50; re-search-forward is slow in some buffers

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 58558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#58558: 29.0.50; re-search-forward is slow in some buffers
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:25:14 -0400

>> I suspect that the patch below might fix the immediate problem.
>> Of course, setting `parse-sexp-lookup-properties` should not have such
>> a major performance impact, so maybe we should keep digging into
>> the problem.
>
> Thanks!  That's a nasty little bug for somebody who hasn't seen it
> before.  I don't the Elisp manual is all that explicit about what
> happens in such cases.

According to my reading of the manual, it does explain what happens, but
maybe it should more specifically warn about this kind of interaction.

> Just as a matter of interest, have you searched cc-defs.el for any other
> places the same bug might occur?  If not, I will.

No, among other things because I don't know a good regexp that can help
me look for it.


        Stefan

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