bug#24012: 25.0.95; forward-comment backwards takes O(n^2)

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> On 7/17/16 2:04 PM, Leo Liu wrote:
>>> 1. Use the attached file as an example, open it in emacs in ruby-mode
>>> 2. Move point to end of buffer and eval (forward-comment (- (point)))
>>> The last step takes about 0.25 seconds on my MacBook 3 GHz Intel Core
>>> i7. If you double the lines of comments, the time increase by 4 folds.
>>
>> FWIW, it looks fixed in the master branch now.
>>
>> Probably by 14b95587520959c5b54356547a0a69932a9bb480, so no idea what exactly
>> was causing it.
>
> Indeed.  I only see O(n) on current master -- that is, if I use the
> source code from the original report, and double the amount of lines
> by C-x h M-w C-y, the time to evaluate this expression in a buffer
> only doubles:
>
>     (progn (end-of-buffer) (forward-comment (- (point))))
>
> Leo, are you still seeing this issue?  If I don't hear back within a
> couple of weeks, I'll just assume that this has been fixed and close
> this bug.

More information was requested, but none was given within 5 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.  If this is still an issue, please reopen the
bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas