From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lax matching is not a great default behavior Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:01:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83r3j6j5vj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837fl2qzs2.fsf@gnu.org> <83610ikvto.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb8iqa0l.fsf@udel.edu> <87k2oyymjv.fsf@udel.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449000094 29039 80.91.229.3 (1 Dec 2015 20:01:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 20:01:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 01 21:01:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a3r6w-00074z-Ei for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:01:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3r6v-0001bC-Qd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:01:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34707) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3r6s-0001b7-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:01:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3r6q-0006nd-3P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:45007) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3r6p-0006nT-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:01:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NYP00A003ABXN00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:01:06 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NYP00A3N3LTVJ40@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:01:06 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87k2oyymjv.fsf@udel.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195713 Archived-At: > From: Mark Oteiza > Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:51:48 -0500 > > Example of a long symbol in elisp: try searching for > "tty-set-up-initial-frame-faces" in faces.el > > Searching for "free software foundation" in NEWS is also very slow. The first match is almost instantaneous here; it's the next one, especially if it fails, is slow. So it doesn't seem to be the search itself, it's something else that's at work here.