bug#48871: 27.2; Unusably slow in C# mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: jan <rtm443x@googlemail.com>
> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 15:53:11 +0100
> Cc: 48871@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I don't recall installing c# but may well have happened.
> >From package-list-packages:
> 
> csharp-mode        20210328.2004 installed             C# mode derived mode
> 
> Which does not say built-in so likely I did. Looking in the unzipped
> emacs 27.2 , no relevant *sharp* file in it, and did find it in the
> elpa directory, so I guess must have.
> 
> Started with -Q.  Did the M-x load-file for csharp-mode.el (FYI also
> had to do load-file for csharp-compilation.el before that to make it
> happy).
> 
> Finally got to load the C# file itself, exactly the same. No faster.
> 
> Troublesome C# file attached.

Thanks.

Alan, can you look into this?  It could be some problem in
csharp-mode, but the profiler says 97% of the time is spent in a CC
mode code, so maybe you can shed some light on this?

I see that almost the entire 6896-line file is enclosed in a single
"namespace LDB { ... }" block, maybe this is the reason?

Here's the main portion of a profile measured on my system from just
inserting 3 characters at BOB of the file attached by the OP.  An
unoptimized build of Emacs 28 took about 2 min(!) to process those 3
self-inserting characters.

          8693  98% - command-execute
          8693  98%  - call-interactively
          8693  98%   - funcall-interactively
          8690  98%    - self-insert-command
          8627  98%     - c-before-change
          8627  98%      - mapc
          8627  98%       - #<compiled 0x1aaa1ff2c62de223>
          8627  98%        - c-before-change-check-unbalanced-strings
          8611  97%           c-pps-to-string-delim
            10   0%         - c-syntactic-re-search-forward
             2   0%          - c-beginning-of-macro
             2   0%             back-to-indentation
             1   0%            #<compiled 0x4f47ef635173>
             1   0%           c-clear-syn-tab
            63   0%     - c-after-change