Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Dmitry.

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 18:04:13 +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> In that case, there are several issues at play.

> Scenarios that are made slower if the file is large are probably caused 
> by the same architectural decisions that make (find-file "src/xdisp.c") 
> slow-ish. All those could likely be improved if CC Mode migrated to 
> using syntax-propertize-function, with its on-demand approach to parsing.

Please would you stop saying this.  It's not true, and it gets very
wearing.  The crude syntax-propertize-function mechanism would have to
be considerably enhanced before it could support CC Mode's features.
And even then, it would be unlikely to be faster than the current CC
Mode.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).