Re: Overlays as an AA-tree

[Joakim Jalap]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> I seem to recall that somebody made the suggestion earlier to make
> overlays a special case of text properties, and then getting rid of most
> of the low-level overlay code.  Text properties are already implemented
> pretty efficiently, I think?

Well, I think the main difference is that overlays are object, that is,
there is a struct Lisp_Overlay. There were some issues with how
intervals are grafted into a buffer if I recall correctly.

> I don't know how feasible this is, though.

Hm, perhaps there is a way to make a struct Lisp_Overlay which just
points to an interval. I should probably have a look at that again.

-- Joakim