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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns |
Date: | Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:14:20 +0000 |
It is, indeed. But here we are talking about big files (say 1 GB). In that case (and in that case only) it is much better, from a user viewpoint, to wait say 20 seconds before the file is opened and being at that point able to freely move through the file, instead of waiting only 6 seconds, and then having to wait another 10 seconds between two motion commands like M-> C-p. In fact, no user expects that a 1 GB file would open instantaneously.You can maybe have that for C-p that follows M->, but wouldn't the wait return, with a vengeance, if you insert a single character (because then the buffer needs to be re-scanned)? If so, we've gained nothing, really.
Fortunately no: the buffer doesn't need to be rescanned, syntax-ppss caches its result, to avoid having to rescan the whole buffer again and again. At least that's what Stefan and Dmitry told me, and that's what I see in my tests.
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