Re: announcing synfl, the next generation of fontlock

>>>>> "dvl" == Didier Verna <[email protected]> writes:

    dvl> As for speed, I don't know but I have the opposite feeling.

Profiling says that the Lisp LR code uses a small fraction of the time
spent in the C regexp code, even with trace statements in the LR code
every few lines, and even though the regexps are restricted to the
form [charclass1][charclass2]*, maybe with a couple of \\|'s in there.
>From the speed vantage point, there's something very wrong with this
picture, but it's not in the Lisp corner.

    dvl> I'd rather make the parser in C, and provide hooks in Lisp
    dvl> when needed.

Hey, this is free software, whatever floats your boat.  :-)  I think
the parser in Lisp strategy is more likely to be sufficiently flexible
to quickly develop new font-lock and other "parsed text editing"
strategies, that's all.

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