Re:JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp
by agumonkey on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:25PM
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Few editable systems are happy with 1K lines. I remember a discussion where only one editor was happy dealing with that, all other became sluggish.
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1k lines does not stress many editors. It only stresses emacs when the major mode is doing lots of stuff to highlight and format.
I regularly used other editors on C files with 30k+ lines, 15 years ago when machines were slower.
Emacs' real weakness is an over-reliance on regexes for highlighting and poor integration with sources of semantic and symbolic information for richer highlighting, editing and browsing. That, and synchronous operations for the same.
> 1k lines does not stress many editors.
but folks here are talking about _each_ line >1k characters, not total number of lines in a file...