Re: Reliable after-change-functions (via: Using incremental parsing in Emacs)

[Stefan Monnier]

> If we really want to tackle this issue, there are other approaches to
> consider, e.g. background parsing, or parsing up until a time limit, and
> resume parsing when Emacs is idle. Tree-sitter's API supports the
> latter.

Emacs is in dire need to exploit multiple cores.  It would be very
natural to run tree-parser's initial parse asynchronously in a separate
thread.  This requires to pass tree-parser a *copy* of the
buffer's text.


        Stefan