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extremely slow font-lock-mode
From: |
Martin Pohlack |
Subject: |
extremely slow font-lock-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:25:35 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) |
Hi,
I'm experiencing very slow syntax highlighting with emacs-23.0.60
(GTK+ Version 2.12.1).
Simply scrolling in source files takes incredibly long (~ 1 second for
scolling one line backwards). This is an a dual-core 2 GHZ machine
...
I tried to play with all font-lock and jit-lock customization options
but only turning font-lock off seemed to make a difference.
I tried to use elp to instrument relevant packages (mwheel, font-lock,
jit-lock, mouse, lazy-lock, fast-lock). After some scrolling (~ 20
seconds, with pauses, mouse wheel, pg-keys and scrollbar) I get
the following results:
Function Name Call Count Elapsed Time Average Time
================================== ========== ============ ============
mwheel-scroll 62 4.060767 0.0654962419
jit-lock-function 18 0.0083890000 0.0004660555
jit-lock-fontify-now 18 0.0082680000 0.0004593333
font-lock-fontify-region 18 0.007176 0.0003986666
font-lock-default-fontify-region 18 0.006962 0.0003867777
font-lock-fontify-syntactically-re 18 0.0042169999 0.0002342777
font-lock-fontify-keywords-region 18 0.0020000000 0.0001111111
jit-lock-context-fontify 21 0.0017679999 8.419...e-05
font-lock-mode 14 0.0004470000 3.192...e-05
font-lock-unfontify-region 18 0.000194 1.077...e-05
mwheel-filter-click-events 55 0.0001699999 3.090...e-06
font-lock-prepend-text-property 32 0.0001610000 5.031...e-06
mwheel-event-button 62 0.0001379999 2.225...e-06
mwheel-event-window 62 0.0001349999 2.177...e-06
font-lock-default-function 14 0.0001119999 8e-06
mwheel-inhibit-click-timeout 7 0.000105 1.5e-05
font-lock-change-mode 2 9.5e-05 4.75e-05
font-lock-default-unfontify-region 18 6.500...e-05 3.611...e-06
font-lock-extend-region-multiline 18 4.5e-05 2.5e-06
font-lock-extend-region-wholelines 18 4.4e-05 2.444...e-06
font-lock-set-defaults 18 4.200...e-05 2.333...e-06
mouse-region-match 1 6e-06 6e-06
So, mwheel-scroll seems to behave badly. However, lots of the
problematic calls also seem to have been lost. E.g., scrolling with
keyboard was also very slow and is not shown in the table.
I also noticed, that scrolling forward seems to go considerably faster
than scrolling backwards (maybe this has to do with syntax-driven
jit-lock?).
The results are twofold for me:
First, I don't seem to be using elp right or it is the wrong tool.
Ideally, I would like to use a /sampling/ profiler for emacs.
- Is there such a thing that can look into running lisp code?
- How should I be using elp differently for getting meaningful
results?
Second, font-lock-mode is currently unusable for me. I started emacs
with -q, so I don't think my local tweak are to blame. emacs-22 on my
local machine is incredibly fast for the same file (also started with
-q).
- What might be to blame here?
- Do you need more details on any aspect of my machine configuration?
Cheers,
Martin Pohlack
- extremely slow font-lock-mode,
Martin Pohlack <=
Re: extremely slow font-lock-mode, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/12