From: Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 35675-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35675: 27.0.50; Is line-number-at-pos unnecessarily slow?
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 07:34:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7fp8ban.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878svcwwwk.fsf@tcd.ie>
On Sat 11 May 2019 at 15:36, Basil L. Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie> wrote:
> Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> line-number-at-pos basically regex searches forward for \n's and
>> counts them up.
>
> It only does this (via count-lines) if selective-display is t, which is
> deprecated and seldom used. Otherwise it uses the value returned by
> forward-line (defined in C), which calls find_newline, which AFAIK uses
> the buffer's newline cache to some extent (I'm not familiar with its
> implementation).
Thanks, I missed/misunderstood that part.
> Either way, as Eli says, there's often an algorithmic solution to
> slowness in uses of count-lines.
I'll take that advice and see if there's a more clever way to go about it.
Thanks again,
Alex
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-10 20:55 bug#35675: 27.0.50; Is line-number-at-pos unnecessarily slow? Alex Branham
2019-05-11 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-11 20:36 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-14 12:34 ` Alex Branham [this message]
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