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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 24 Performance Issues in  'add-text-properties
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 22:45:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk35kxg0d.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7a14bdfa-e253-440c-999c-1cccde9f5d52@googlegroups.com

>            (add-text-properties (- startc 2) (- endc 0)  '(face           '(:foreground  "gray")))

This call, like any other call that changes text-properties is
considered as a buffer modification.  So the modification hooks are run,
which can include font-lock stuff (which will end up overwriting your
`face' property, by the way) and other fun, which could end up
being costly.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-04  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-03 20:19 GNU Emacs 24 Performance Issues in 'add-text-properties joseph.koziatek
2014-09-04  2:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-09-04 18:12 ` joseph.koziatek
2014-09-04 20:04   ` Stefan Monnier

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