From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lazy-lock vs. jit-lock
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:10:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c75879e93104f72e99b8b8846b1fcc2d@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877j9otmem.fsf@gmail.com>
Am 29.12.2005 um 08:03 schrieb Ian Zimmerman:
> Can anyone comment on the relative advantages of these kinds of
> font-locking? jit-lock seems to be the default in Emacs 21.4, but I
> fount that in some buffers (not necessarily large ones) whole chunks
> are
> left unfontified. Waiting for them to be "stealthily" fontified also
> doesn't help; only font-lock-fontify-buffer does.
>
jit means just in time -- since modern CPUs are so fast, jit-lock is
too slow. I think that's jit-lock's story: being helpful on slow
computers. I seem to remember that it was recommended not to use
jit-lock any more because it could be removed some day. (I too switched
off jit-lock some months or years ago.)
--
Greetings
Pete <\
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2005-12-29 7:03 ` lazy-lock vs. jit-lock Ian Zimmerman
2005-12-29 11:10 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2005-12-29 20:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-12-29 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 15:16 ` shreevatsa
2005-12-29 15:54 ` Ian Zimmerman
2005-12-29 15:55 ` rgb
2005-12-30 1:07 ` Ian Zimmerman
2005-12-30 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-29 16:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 18:20 ` Ian Zimmerman
2005-12-29 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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