Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
>> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:07:52 -0700
>> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org, 
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > Then I suggest to set it to 2 by default.
>> 
>> Performance is reasonable most of the time.
>
> Not IME.

But your use case is not representative, isn't it? Using a debug build
with checks enabled have a large impact on performance.

BTW, from time to time I use a 2011 netbook with an Atom CPU and have no
complaints while working with 30k lines-long machine-generated (read:
code-dense, comment-sparse, almost no withespace) C++ files.