bug#60953: The :match predicate with large regexp in tree-sitter font-lock seems inefficient

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 30/01/2023 21:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:01:02 +0200
> > Cc:casouri@gmail.com,60953@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
> >
> > But that doesn't answer the question "Could it?".
> I don't understand what you are asking.  "Could" in what sense?

Like, would it make sense to try to modify it that way, or extract a 
function that would do that, without writing it from scratch.

Or create a new function which would reuse some common code.

We would call the new function something like match_buffer_substring. 
Optionally, also expose it to Lisp.