Re: I seek QA for CPerl 5.2 (Emacs mode)

[Randy W. Sims]

Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>   ilyaz.org/software/emacs
>
> In my private classification, this release is pre-alpha.  However, I
> still hope to promote it to "golden" without any change ;-).
>
> Since it is a very extensive edit, bugs are possible.  Moreover, an
> order of applying some heuristics changed (this is the principal
> reason for the 3.5x..15x speedup I observed).  In the cases I tried,
> this edit speeds up things; however, it might be that in some other
> cases it makes things slower.
>
> Thus I would like to hear about *ALL* changes to the worse comparing
> to 5.0, both in correctness of operation, and in speed.  Your feedback
> is very appreciated.

I notice an incredible speed up when loading/fontifying largish modules.

One wierd problem I find is if I load two copies of a certain file it 
becomes develishly slow to do anything, even scrolling. This doesn't 
seem to happen on all files; not sure if it's size or content related yet.

Eg, If I unpack the Module::Build distribution into two different 
directories, then load copies of Module/Build/Base.pm from each 
location, the second buffer becomes slow. The original buffer and any 
others are not affected. If I close both buffers, then open the same 
file again, the new buffer is also slow-I must exit emacs and restart 
before I can work with that particular file because of slowdown.

This is on Debian (testing) with GNU Emacs 21.4.1.

Other than that one problem, the new version is great. Like I said the 
speedup when loading/fontifying is amazing.

Regards,
Randy.