bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:04:06 +0000 Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> wrote:

>>> When I visit addons.json (from my Firefox directory), which is a single
>>> line of (only) 19540 characters, and type `C-n' and hold down both keys,
>>> the cursor stops moving almost immediately (on the third visual line) and
>>> after letting go of the keys and waiting several seconds, point jumps down
>>> the buffer to its actual position; likewise with `C-p'. This is on master
>>> with -Q, and is no different from Emacs 28 (the only difference I notice is
>>> that in master the buffer is wrongly fontified from position 8235 to the
>>> end, while in 28 the entire buffer is correctly fontified).  Is this
>>> expected?  (When I enable so-long-mode in the buffer, holding down `C-n' or
>>> `C-p' produces no delay, both in master and 28.)
>>
>> That's not expected, no, and rather surprising because it would contradict
>> what we've seen so far.  Can you post that file somewhere? 

It contains nothing particularly personal, so I've attached it.

>>                                                            The only possible
>> reason I can see ATM is that the file contains Arabic characters, which are
>> (and will remain) slow.

No Arabic and only four non-ASCII characters (three occurrences of `’'
and one of `É').

> I forgot to mention: did you try after disabling show-paren-mode?  It is known
> to slow down redisplay at the beginning and end of the buffer, and will
> eventually be automatically turned off in these buffers.

Disabling show-paren-mode makes no noticeable difference.

Steve Berman


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