From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: State of the overlay branch (again)? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:32:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="205581"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sebastian Sturm Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 25 14:34:37 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iD6VA-000rJf-43 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:34:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49398 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iD6V8-0002WW-Q9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iD6TF-0001bh-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iD6TD-0004kn-Tb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:32:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:21053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iD6TD-0004kd-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:32:35 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 8642A1007B5; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:32:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id F0DA910035B; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:32:32 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1569414753; bh=AsXWvS5jatmY7ZJOgrNsLSAlBrLnNHrlE34TMb/dKio=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=lkTT2jinikP8dwkDQ2AR+kdNhSSB9gCFuWrREYkOsEpMCCLmhhDSg+GWaXChS140O Bg19Wm2xV2AmVghdZmenWDEq4ArwTRaZDitljPqCAX7pWRxJZ83WBKQXmejAOnGZEa rlhQJ8Oz2KjVlaMGFck72x1zxsogqDFZ4sdsGPbrJZQOT/+8qCBdapxqn+hGIrOb2d /CfMAb26jd2VIPzTo/mmSSJcCj5qKBzKoOXIF55vrHchNy2wbfWgz57K1p76UP8nrg pofeza9ZhugYmhQO36jlJV0T9IxQ4sUMMrcx2mq+79Hm5hT475Zz6hYicW/VuuUtnJ zsdkSWCvMAYYQ== Original-Received: from pastel (107-179-151-143.cpe.teksavvy.com [107.179.151.143]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8650E1203CD; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:32:32 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Sebastian Sturm's message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:59:02 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240286 Archived-At: > (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-03/msg00565.html) > because overlays are heavily used by some implementations of semantic > highlighting (see emacs-ccls, lsp-mode). [...] > If so, is there anything I could do to help speed up the > merge process? I think benchmarks comparing the noverlay branch with master (especially on those problematic cases) could do wonders to motivate someone to finish the development&merge (assuming the benchmarks show that it improves performance significantly, of course). Stefan