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bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers.
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Yuan Fu |
Subject: |
bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers. |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Dec 2022 15:14:27 -0800 |
> On Dec 10, 2022, at 1:34 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>
> Hello, Eli.
>
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 22:37:05 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 16:40:15 -0800
>>> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
>>> 59738@debbugs.gnu.org
>
>>>> Right, but with a long series of #define lines there should be no
>>>> parse tree at all…
>
>>> Ok, I think I know why. At the beginning of the file there is this
>>> line
>
>>> #ifndef _dce_12_0_SH_MASK_HEADER
>
>>> So it’s parsed into a preproc_ifdef node, which contains every
>>> #define directive in the file as its immediate child. Now you have
>>> this node with a tons of immediate children. And querying this node
>>> in font-lock is very slow, even with a limited range. I think for the
>>> query result to be accurate, tree-sitter has to query the whole node
>>> without considering the range, then throw away matches that are not
>>> in the range.
>
>>> Anyway, I activated my backup backup plan, which goes down the parse
>>> tree to find a sufficiently small node to query. Now scrolling the
>>> header file is fast as other files.
>
>> Thanks, now c-ts-mode is twice as fast as c-mode with that file.
>
>> Great job!
>
> The bug which was causing it to be very slow is fixed, so I agree,
> excellent job!
>
> But I've measured it as being 62% faster (not twice as fast) as CC Mode.
> A "normal" C file (xdisp.c) is around 160% faster, i.e. a little over 2½
> times as fast. These timings are indeed significantly faster.
>
> But given how slow CC Mode was held to be, is a factor 2.6 speed-up
> really all that we were expecting from c-ts-mode? This is the sort of
> speed-up one would get by replacing a 5 year old machine with a new one,
> or using an optimised build in place of a debug build.
>
> Was I perhaps a little unrealistic in expecting an order of magnitude
> speed-up? Is there still scope for optimisation in c-ts-mode?
AFAIK not too much room for optimization. Querying the patterns takes like 99%
of the time during fontification.
Querying time (thus fontification time) increases as the buffer size increases,
even if we limit the range of the query to a fixed region (which is what we do
in tree-sitter font-lock). This is unlike c-mode, where fontifying a region
takes the same amount of time regardless of the buffer size. Some benchmarks I
did:
In xdisp.c
Time Task
0.0008 A single query for comments
0.008 All queries in c-ts-mode
0.00815 treesit-font-lock-fontify-region (1500 char)
0.0214 font-lock-fontify-region in c-mode (1500 char)
12.048 time-scroll in c-ts-mode
21.206 time-scroll in c-mode
5.539 time-scroll in fundamental-mode
In treesit.c
Time Task
0.00336 All queries in c-ts-mode
0.00391 treesit-font-lock-fontify-region (1500 char)
0.0281 font-lock-fontify-region in c-mode (1500 char)
1.958 time-scroll in c-ts-mode
1.969 time-scroll in c-mode
0.535 time-scroll in fundamental-mode
Though I’ll note that tree-sitter would provide other benefits. I don’t know
how much time does c-mode spend on analyzing the buffer content when user edits
it, but I imagine tree-sitter to be faster in that regard, too. That should
help the perceived performance. Also (unrelated to performance) tree-sitter
makes it vastly easier to write (and maintain) a major mode.
Yuan
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Alan Mackenzie, 2022/12/01
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Yuan Fu, 2022/12/03
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Yuan Fu, 2022/12/06
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/07
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Yuan Fu, 2022/12/07
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/08
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Alan Mackenzie, 2022/12/10
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers.,
Yuan Fu <=
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/11
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Alan Mackenzie, 2022/12/11
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Dmitry Gutov, 2022/12/11
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/11
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Alan Mackenzie, 2022/12/11
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/11
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Alan Mackenzie, 2022/12/11
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/11
- bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Stefan Kangas, 2022/12/12
bug#59738: c-ts-mode is slow with large buffers., Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/07