Re: Bug #25608 and the comment-cache branch

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "DG" == Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

GD> One normally adds an alternative source of truth (i.e. a "cache") to fix a
DG> significant performance problem, when one really can't do so otherwise.

DG> It seems we agree now that comment-cache's existence can't be justified by
GD> performance considerations.

DG> Cache invalidation is a known hard problem in CS, so we generally don't
GD> want to have extra caches.

This argument right here is why I would vote against comment-cache: I'd rather
have parens-in-comments-at-column-0 parsed incorrectly -- at least, until
syntax-ppss is fixed -- than to add another cache just to fix this problem.
Unless I've missed something...

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