Re: [RFC]: replace-region-contents

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:19:13 +0100
> 
> > In what version of Emacs?  I think it was slow in 26.1, but wa ssped
> > up significantly since then.
> 
> Master as of today.
> 
> > If you are using emacs-26 or the master branch from Git, and it is
> > still slow, can you show an example where it's slow, and tell how much
> > time it took?
> 
> I prepared a tar.xz with a synthetic, huge, one-line JSON file generated
> by https://next.json-generator.com and a lisp file benchmarking the
> current against my proposed version of `json-pretty-print'.
> 
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kKahq3csBVXWL-nN1-eMhgDctGWBN1AR

Ouch!

I guess we'd need to limit use of replace-region-contents to small
enough JSON strings?