From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: State-machine based syntax highlighting
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:42:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpsav8v22.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165510932.276718.251220@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> (spamfilteraccount@gmail.com's message of "7 Dec 2006 09\:02\:12 -0800")
>> > I did a quick search and found this page
>> > http://harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu/harmonia/projects/harmonia-mode/doc/index.html
>> > with a demo xemacs package with syntax highlighting and stuff. Looked
>> > interesting.
>> Interesting.
> I wondered why they supported xemacs only, so I downloaded the source.
> Seems they wrote xemacs extensions in c which have to be compiled into
> xemacs.
> Not a usual way to extend an emacs, but probably advantageous from a
> performance point of view.
> The idea already occured to me that font locking should be implemented
> in pure c in emacs for speed, but I guess it's kind of against the
> extensible editor concept or something.
Actually, font-locking *is* implemented in C. The elisp part usually takes
a negligible amount of time. The problem start appearing when the
functionality of the C code is not sufficient and you start trying to parse
the code in elisp, which is slow.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-07 17:42 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 [this message]
[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
2006-12-07 19:29 ` spamfilteraccount
2006-12-08 14:43 ` Robert Thorpe
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