bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns

[Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>]

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> The alternative, of course, is to pay the price of syntax-ppss on larger 
> spans and wait the corresponding amount of time the first time the user 
> scrolls to EOB.
>

Or to speed up syntax-ppss in a way or another.

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> But as Gregory shows, when you get to _really_ large files (like 1 GB 
> JSON file in his example), pressing M-> will still make you wait (I have 
> to wait around 20 seconds).
>

Or when you have a slower CPU, with moderately large files.

>
> But being able to choose this approach (in the absence of better 
> upcoming alternatives) is a good thing.
>

The problem is (again) that what you would like does not provide any 
protection against modes which use widen inside their fontification 
routines.