Re: How should this profiler report interpreted?

[Stefan Monnier]

>   ...
>   (while (looking-at "INSERT INTO `test2`.+,\\([0-9]+\\));")
>     (let ((item (match-string 1))
>           (line (buffer-substring (line-beginning-position) 
> (line-end-position))))
>       (message item)
>       (save-excursion
>         (re-search-backward (concat "INSERT INTO `test1`.+"
>                                     "VALUES 
> ([^,]+,'[^']*','[^']*','[^']*','[^']*',[^,]+,[^,]+,"
>                                     item
>                                     ","))
>         (end-of-line)
>         (insert "\n" line))
>       (delete-region (line-beginning-position) (1+ (line-end-position)))
>       )))

If that's indeed the code in which all the time is spent, then the
profile is very misleading (IOW bogus) because the time won't be spent
in `save-excursion` but in `re-search-backward`.

If you can reproduce this bogus profile, please `M-x report-emacs-bug`
(ideally with a corresponding sample file on which to run the code).


        Stefan