bug#2963: wishlist: improve speed of `make-overlay'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, wl@gnu.org,
>  Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, politza@hochschule-trier.de
> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 08:33:34 -0300
> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>  > Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:
>  >
>  >> The complexity of `make-overlay' appears to be O(N), which makes it
>  >> unbearably slow for larger buffers.
>  >
>  > Andreas did a lot of work on reimplementing the overlay internals a few
>  > years back -- but I see that it was never merged?
>  >
>  > Andreas, what's the state of the feature/noverlay branch?
> 
> This message was 2 years ago.  Meanwhile the feature/noverlay branch got
> merged.  Maybe this can be closed.  CCing Stefan M.

I think it should be closed, indeed.