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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: State-machine based syntax highlighting
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:02:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfybrlee3.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1165516558.657188.21610@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

> Good to know. I thought font-lock was implemented in elisp and didn't
> bother to check.

If you look at the code you'll probably think it's implemented in elisp.
But if you look at a profile, you'll probably see that it's spending most of
its time in either text-property manipulation functions, or
regexp-matching, or parse-partial-sexp, all of which are written in C.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-07 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-07  6:14 State-machine based syntax highlighting spamfilteraccount
2006-12-07 10:53 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-07 11:56   ` spamfilteraccount
2006-12-07 12:42     ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-07 14:27       ` spamfilteraccount
2006-12-07 14:39         ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-07 17:02           ` spamfilteraccount
2006-12-07 17:42             ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1644.1165513359.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-07 18:35               ` spamfilteraccount
2006-12-07 18:57                 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-07 20:24                   ` Perry Smith
2006-12-08  7:33                   ` spamfilteraccount
2006-12-08  8:10                     ` Tim X
2006-12-08  8:36                       ` spamfilteraccount
2006-12-08 16:17                         ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-08 21:14                           ` spamfilteraccount
2006-12-09  2:08                             ` Stefan Monnier
2006-12-09  2:06                           ` Stefan Monnier
2006-12-09  3:24                             ` Lennart Borgman
2006-12-08 13:14                       ` Leo
2006-12-08 14:00                       ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-09  2:10                         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.1672.1165586758.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-08 14:17                         ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-08 21:17                       ` spamfilteraccount
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.1653.1165523111.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-08 10:01                     ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-07 19:02                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-12-07 19:29                   ` spamfilteraccount
2006-12-08 14:43                     ` Robert Thorpe

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