Re: Dynamic loading progress

[Stefan Monnier]

> Actually, most accesses to buffer text do precisely that: access one
> character at a time.  The API typically accepts the buffer position.
> Why do you think this is inefficient?

For efficient parsing (as done by forward-word, forward-sexp and
friends), I think you need to keep both the current "charpos" and
"bytepos", but Elisp interfaces don't give access to this level.


        Stefan