bug#22763: 25.1.50; Feature Request -- A faster method to obtain line number at position.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> There's no caching.  I guess find_newline is just slow compared to
>> display_count_lines?
>
> find_newline does the same as display_count_lines: it calls memchr.
> But it also maintains a newline cache.  If you disable that cache (by
> turning of cache-long-scans), you might see a different speedup.

Shouldn't the cache speed things up?

Hm...  perhaps I'm not getting a newline cache in my tests because I'm
using a temp buffer or something?

> Also, calling forward-line would loop in Lisp, not in C.

No, it cleverly loops in C by calling `forward-line' this way to count
lines:

(- (buffer-size) (forward-line (buffer-size)))

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