From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: State of the overlay tree branch? Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:12:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <834lldp18f.fsf@gnu.org> <9646341d-700b-4240-216b-8c0e753fa79f@arkona-technologies.de> <86d03e78-9984-f33e-a3f3-3faa4b34d78b@arkona-technologies.de> <83vadso9ad.fsf@gnu.org> <5155d5e2-6b5c-581e-89fe-4f3af717304f@arkona-technologies.de> <4c82fcbd-961a-c6ca-b1f0-6b85665cb339@arkona-technologies.de> <83o9jfi5a9.fsf@gnu.org> <83efkbi2hb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1521807094 18145 195.159.176.226 (23 Mar 2018 12:11:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:11:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 23 13:11:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ezLXb-0004bS-Gx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:11:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezLZe-0005Qh-Tp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:13:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezLZ0-0004zt-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezLYv-0001Nx-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33076 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezLYu-0001NN-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ezLWp-0003m0-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:10:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vpFSwUgzuDiBbNfIsr4tJcvjSL4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223953 Archived-At: > Also, what about my suggestion to count lines in a relative manner, > using count-lines from a line with a known number? You never replied > to that suggestion. FWIW, I believe in his case most of the time is spent outside of the actual "count the lines" (aka forward-line) code, so counting fewer lines because we start from a more nearby position probably won't help very much. Stefan