Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue - Patch for beginning-of-defun-raw.

[David Kastrup]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

> Now that we've got 1 to 4 GHz processors, (eq opic0ids nil) is a
> reasonable default for C.

No, it isn't.  We have clearly established that the current code is
_at_ _least_ quadratic in computation time requirements.  If some
medium size Emacs source file already causes editing to become painful
on 1 GHz processors, a file with corresponding features four times the
size of xdisp.c (and Emacs is a small application by today's
standards) will be too painful to edit on the hottest machines for
quite a few years to come.

I don't want to have Emacs reduced to be recommended only for small
files and small projects.  If we don't have an approach that scales,
it is not fit for a default setting.

And there are lot of hackers who are not using Windows at all, and
thus are not involved in the vicious circle of forced hardware
upgrades.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum