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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns |
Date: | Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:47:04 +0000 |
Wouldn't it make sense to also limit the portion of the buffer to which pre-/post-command-hook have access (see below)?Those generally don't belong to the display department, so I'd hesitate doing so. Which pre-/post-command-hook functions did you find that cause slowdown because of long lines.
jit-lock--antiblink-post-command
With that patch, I was able to open and edit a file with a single 50 GB (!) line, in js-mode. Does that still not qualify as "arbitrarily large"?We don't even claim to be able to edit _files_ of arbitrary size (because we are limited by fixnums).
That's theory, isn't it? With 64-bit builds we are limited to files that are less than 2047 Po. No computer on this planet has that much RAM.
I compared that with a 50 GB JSON file with 80 character wide lines. With that file it was necessary to disable font-lock-mode, which took too much time.How so? We now restrict font-lock to a small region, so why does it matter how much more stuff is there outside of the viewport? What other aspects of the line size still affect performance?
We do not restrict font-lock in large files _without long lines_, hence the difference.
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