Re: How to add pseudo vector types

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> In your benchmark , you give numbers for:
> - initial full-text parse (a bit above 1MB/s)
> - cost of update-without-reparse
>
> but I think it would be nice to see the cost of the reparse after
> those updates (should be much faster than the initial parse).
>
> Clément said:
>> I have no idea if it makes sense, but: does the initial parse need to be
>> synchronous, or could you instead run the parsing in one thread, and the
>> rest of Emacs in another? (I'm talking about concurrent execution, not
>> cooperative threading).
>
> If we copy the buffer's content to a freshly malloc area before passing
> that to TS, then there should be no problem running TS in a separate
> concurrent thread, indeed.

Except that the results will not be useful, since they won't apply to
the original buffer if it is changed. And if the original buffer is not
changed, then we do not need to run the parser asynchronously.

Computing fontification and indentation must be synchronous.

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