Re: The current state of the comment-cache branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:50:56 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
>                    First forward run     Backwards     Second forward run
> 
> master:                 34.100s            36.050s       34.575s 
> 
> comment-cache:          30.110s            32.275s         34.990s
> [...]
> I would like the comment-cache code to be merged into master soon.

Given that the speed-up is around 11% - 13%, and only for the first
scan, what are the other advantages/benefits of this code that would
cause us to merge it?

Thanks.