Re: web-mode.el and speed

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 07.10.2013 22:21, schrieb Bois Francois-Xavier:
> I think that a function that would not rely on regexp could improve
> drastically the performance.
> For seconds are needed to load the html5-spec page. And most of the time is
> spent identifying tags. So any micro optimization can have a huge impact.
>
> (I have previously won 20% in perfomance when I modified the tag attributes
> parser function to use chars instead of strings. I would have never thought
> that the gain would be so large)
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > From: Bois Francois-Xavier <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 21:29:42 +0200
> > >
> > > I think that using a search-chars-forward (native) function could improve
> > > the performance
> > > (search-chars-foward '(?\< ?\>))
> >
> > What's wrong with skip-chars-forward?

As it was said: skip-chars-forward

there is still the string/comment issue, where it probably shouldn't match

(while (and (< 0 (abs (skip-chars-forward CHARS)))(nth 8 (syntax-ppss))))