Re: Lazy printing in tabulated-list-mode

[Artur Malabarba]

2015-05-01 14:43 GMT+01:00 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
>> The outcome is that very large buffers (with entries around the
>> thousands) will come up instantaneously, where they would normally
>> take a couple of seconds to print.
>
> I'm wondering why it should take that long to print a few
> thousand entries.  Did you profile the code to see where the time
> is spent?

I did profile, and as far as I could tell it is spent in the printing itself. =P
By which I mean I couldn't see any obvious source.
All I could tell is that it's not in the sorting of entries.