From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Overlay mechanic improvements
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:56:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zjdsyks8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8uld0y7f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:07:48 -0400
> Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> We rarely suffer from overlay's performance issues because most codes
> that could suffer from it simply avoid using overlays (or they try to
> minimize the number of overlays used, e.g. by flushing those overlays
> currently not visible), even when they would be the right tool. Or they
> add calls to overlay-recenter when the performance problem is diagnosed.
We should distinguish between 2 use cases here. One is when overlays
need to be displayed. In that case, indeed only the overlays in the
visible region count, which are normally not too many, and the display
engine already does the equivalent of overlay-recenter for each
display line.
The other use case is when some Lisp program, or even some part of
Emacs, needs to search for the next/previous change in character
properties, or find the beginning or end of an overlay. In those
cases, you cannot assume that only the visible portion of a buffer
matters, so in large buffers with many overlays this could be rather
painful.
> I don't see any obvious reason why re-using the existing intervals.c
> tree wouldn't work well.
Overlays can overlap, while text properties cannot. Does that matter
for what intervals.c implement?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-21 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 14:59 Overlay mechanic improvements Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-19 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-20 13:19 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 13:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-21 13:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 13:52 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-21 21:48 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 22:06 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-22 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-22 23:50 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-23 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 16:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-21 21:48 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 22:19 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-23 19:16 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-23 19:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-28 23:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-29 5:45 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-29 20:48 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-30 1:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-30 8:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-30 10:35 ` Rasmus
2014-09-30 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 16:20 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-30 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-02 16:12 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-09-30 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 3:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 12:53 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 13:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-02 1:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-30 5:52 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-06 19:14 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-06 21:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-21 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-09-21 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 21:48 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-22 0:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-22 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-20 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 13:36 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-19 18:03 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 8:08 ` Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-20 13:21 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 16:28 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-20 13:21 ` Tokenizing Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 16:24 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-20 16:40 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-20 20:16 ` Tokenizing Eric Ludlam
2014-09-20 20:35 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-21 15:13 ` parsing (was tokenizing) Stephen Leake
2014-09-20 16:36 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-20 19:55 ` Tokenizing Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 15:35 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-21 16:43 ` Tokenizing Stefan Monnier
2014-09-22 14:05 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-21 13:35 ` Tokenizing Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 14:24 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-21 15:32 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-21 16:42 ` Tokenizing Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 18:55 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-21 22:01 ` Tokenizing Daniel Colascione
2014-09-22 10:21 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-22 13:55 ` Tokenizing Daniel Colascione
2014-09-22 14:02 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-22 14:14 ` Tokenizing Daniel Colascione
2014-09-22 13:15 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
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