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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de>
Cc: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Overlays as an AA-tree
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 15:40:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh9114tt1.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877f1xu4ra.fsf@luca> (Andreas Politz's message of "Wed, 03 May 2017 21:20:09 +0200")

> I stopped working on this, since it wasn't clear where this will be
> going (among other things).  But I'm willing to pick it up again.
> Following is a fairly concise status-report.

What's missing for it to be "good enough for master" (which AFAIK means
mostly that the code is clean, there are no known bugs, and the
performance is varies between "no worse" and "much better" than what we
currently have)?

> I think it would be advantageous to represent overlays with identical
> start values as a single node by utilizing a linked list.  This would
> improve performance in some degenerate cases (from a tree's
> perspective), by combining the best aspects of the (current) list and
> tree approaches.

I don't think we should care too much about those degenerate cases.

> We also talked about using the same data-structure for marker, but
> there is no work done in this direction currently.

Good.  Maybe it's a good idea, but maybe not.  There's no hurry to
investigate (let alone make a decision on) this.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-03 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-20 10:32 Overlays as an AA-tree Joakim Jalap
2016-09-20 12:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-20 12:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-09-20 16:19   ` Joakim Jalap
2016-09-20 23:19   ` Richard Stallman
2016-09-20 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-20 17:13   ` Joakim Jalap
2016-09-21 16:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-22 10:35       ` Joakim Jalap
2016-09-22 12:24         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-21 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-21 15:58   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-21 16:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-21 16:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-21 18:41         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-21 19:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-22 10:35   ` Joakim Jalap
2016-09-22 12:17     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-22 20:11       ` Joakim Jalap
2016-09-23  1:29         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-27  6:26           ` Joakim Jalap
2016-09-27 11:50             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-27 14:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-27 16:07               ` Joakim Jalap
2016-11-21 17:32                 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-11-22  8:09                   ` Joakim Jalap
2016-11-22 13:44                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-23  6:58                       ` Joakim Jalap
2016-11-22 13:44                     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-11-22 13:55                       ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2016-11-23  7:16                         ` Joakim Jalap
2016-11-23 15:42                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-23 16:06                             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-24 18:33                               ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2016-11-23  7:13                       ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-03  8:49 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-03  9:13   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-03 10:24     ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-03 11:33   ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-03 12:44     ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-03 14:11       ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-03 15:02         ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-03 15:23           ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-03 15:54             ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-04 21:22       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-04 23:10         ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-06  9:56           ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-06 11:33             ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-06 15:33               ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-06 15:46                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-06 16:52                   ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-06 17:34                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-06 17:32                 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-07 12:35               ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-07 14:46                 ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-07 22:00                 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-08  0:36                   ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-08  6:53                     ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-08  7:34                       ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-08  8:18                         ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-08  8:44                           ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-08 16:34                           ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-08 17:38                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-08 13:04                   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-08 22:27                     ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-08 22:34                       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-09  9:34                         ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-09 10:05                           ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-09 10:19                             ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-13  3:44                             ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-13  6:11                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-13  9:04                                 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-13 14:36                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-14 10:07                                     ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-17  4:58                                 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-17  7:12                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-19 22:39                                     ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-19 23:10                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-19 23:44                                         ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-20 15:34                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-21  6:56                                         ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-21 15:11                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-21 18:26                                             ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-21 19:18                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-21 23:36                                                 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-24  8:43                                                 ` Andreas Politz
2017-04-08 13:28                                                   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-05-03 19:20                                                     ` Andreas Politz
2017-05-03 19:40                                                       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-05-05 20:39                                                         ` Andreas Politz
2017-05-04  0:54                                                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-05-05 20:10                                                         ` Andreas Politz
2017-05-05 22:22                                                           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-05-06  8:05                                                             ` Andreas Politz
2017-05-04 14:21                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-05 20:08                                                         ` Andreas Politz
2017-05-05 21:41                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-24 13:09                                                         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-10-04  8:17                                                           ` Andreas Politz
2017-10-04  9:22                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-04 20:36                                                               ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-14  0:45                               ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-14  8:32                                 ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-06 13:51             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-06 14:26               ` Andreas Politz
2017-02-06 15:06                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-06 15:40               ` Joakim Jalap
2017-02-06 16:24                 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-03 13:55   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-03 15:14     ` Andreas Politz

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