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Re: Stealth fontification GCs a lot


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Stealth fontification GCs a lot
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:39:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> On 4/14/05, Jonathan Yavner <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Maybe stealth font-lock is pointless all the time.
>
> Well that's clearly not true.  I think it is pretty hard to tune
> because you'd have to guess what the user's going to do...
>
> Maybe it should only try to stealth-fontify some amount of text
> before and after the current point (e.g., 100 lines before and
> after; if the user moves, then just give up on the old position...),
> which would provide a bit of buffering to make page-movement fast,
> but not spend ages fontifying the entirety of giant source files.

Sounds reasonable.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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