Re: Using incremental parsing in Emacs

[Stephen Leake]

Alan Third <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 03:43:13PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I'm pretty far behind in my backlog, so can't say much yet, but IMO the
>> design of some "next generation font-lock / syntax-ppss / indentation /
>> navigation" infrastructure should start by considering the use of
>> multiple CPUs.  That's actually one of the benefits of the LSP approach ;-)
>
> My understanding is that tree sitter also supports parallel parsing of
> a single file.

Can you point to some literature on this? I've never heard of parallel
parsing (other than a generalized LR parser, which is _not_ a speed up :).


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