Re: Most used words in current buffer

[Udyant Wig]

On 07/21/2018 09:45 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Interesting... In general I think Emacs is highly optimized to use the
> buffer as its textual data structure, more so than a string.
> Particularly when the code is compiled (many of the text-movement
> commands have opcodes). I made the following two commands to collect
> words from a novel in an Org file, and the one that uses
> `forward-word' and `buffer-substring' runs around twice as fast as the
> `split-string'.
>
> Of course, they don't collect the same list of words! But even if you
> add more code for trimming, etc., it will still likely be faster than
> operating on a string.
> [snip code]

I have acted upon the advice (yours and Stefan Monnier's) to operate on
the buffer directly using BUFFER-SUBSTRING.  Please see my follow up to
Stefan's message.

BUFFER-SUBSTRING did gain me (somewhat) better performance.

Udyant Wig
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