Re: Patch: Syntax and Hard Newlines

[Stefan Monnier]

>     3 - don't unset parse-sexp-lookup-property because it's too much trouble
>       with no known benefit.

> The only benefit I can think of for turning this off is speedup.
> But how much of a speedup does it give?  Would someone like to try
> some real cases with large files and see if there is any case
> where this really matters?

I haven't bothered to test, but I do know that the slowdown can't be very
serious, other people using c-mode, c++-mode, java-mode, perl-mode,
scheme-mode, python-mode, latex-mode, haskell-mode, ada-mode, texinfo-mode,
... would have complained already.


        Stefan