From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font-lock in COMINT modes
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:38:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv64c9kkkm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wt4pduvg.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon\, 18 Dec 2006 11\:36\:03 -0500")
>> I listed in FOR-RELEASE that this case is slow:
>>
>> You must have gotten that impression from Stefan's 12/08 message:
>>
>> if [font-lock-defaults ] is nil font-lock-mode-internal is not
>> activated at all. AFAIK nil and (nil t) are equivalent (i.e. don't
>> highlight anything), except that (nil t) takes a lot more CPU to do
>> nothing (it runs all the font-lock-foo-function hooks, enables
>> jit-lock so as to do nothing just-in-time rather than eagerly,
>> checks where nothing needs to be done, rounds up to a whole number
>> of lines the region upon which inaction is requested, checks if
>> there's a multiline entity and extends the region even more, so that
>> nothing is done in a multiline way, ...).
>>
>> Even though it is true that font lock jumps through more hoops with
>> (nil t), there is no evidence that this slowdown affects the user.
>>
>>
>> Could you check and see?
> I haven't been able to observe any slowdown when font-lock-defaults is
> (nil t). Not surprising, since I don't notice any slowdown when
> font-lock-defaults is (something t), i.e. normal font-lock situations!
> Maybe someone running on a 486 can observe a difference, who knows.
Indeed, the "slowdown" should be completely and absolutely neligible, even
on a 16MHz 386sx.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-18 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-07 0:57 Font-lock in COMINT modes JD Smith
2006-12-07 16:38 ` JD Smith
2006-12-07 18:00 ` JD Smith
2006-12-09 1:26 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-09 2:15 ` JD Smith
2006-12-09 4:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-12-11 16:22 ` JD Smith
2006-12-12 14:29 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <87vekaf780.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
2006-12-18 16:00 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-18 16:36 ` Chong Yidong
2006-12-18 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-12-20 13:00 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-20 22:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-12-09 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
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