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bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:50:56 +0000



There's (at least) one more aspect of this, as long as Text mode is being used: Text mode doesn't force bidi-paragraph-direction to be left-to-right, whereas all descendants of prog-mode, including js-mode, do. Leaving bidi-paragraph-direction at nil means Emacs needs to determine the base paragraph direction each time it's about to redisplay a window, and that might be expensive, especially in a large buffer without any paragraph breaks (by default, an empty line), because that is determined by the first strong directional character of the paragraph. So for a more fair comparison with Text mode, you should set bidi-paragraph-direction to the value left-to-right in text-mode buffers.


Indeed, that seems to be the culprit here, I didn't know that text-mode was an exception here. If I set bidi-paragraph-direction to 'left-to-right after visiting the arabic-small.txt file, Emacs (mis) behaves like it does for the other Arabic files: it becomes slow, and C-n C-p do not work correctly anymore.





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