Re: Overlays as an AA-tree

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Joakim Jalap <address@hidden> writes:

> First I tried using the tree from intervals.c, but that seemed to be
> very tightly bound to the implementation of text properties, so I gave
> up on that idea.

I seem to recall that somebody made the suggestion earlier to make
overlays a special case of text properties, and then getting rid of most
of the low-level overlay code.  Text properties are already implemented
pretty efficiently, I think?

I don't know how feasible this is, though.

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