Re: A possible way for CC Mode to resolve its sluggishness

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:30:56 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> (i) A CC Mode buffer will be partitioned into @dfn{syntactic cells}.
> These will be things like a section of code, a comment, a string, a raw
> string, a CPP construct ....  Possibly even comment delimiters would
> have their own cells.
> 
> (ii) Syntactic cells will be implemented by a text property, c-syntax,
> whose value will indicate the type of the cell, and possibly an
> identifier for it.  Neighbouring cells will always have distinct
> c-syntax values.

Can a syntactic cell have other syntactic cells embedded in it?
Because if it can, you cannot use text properties for that, since text
properties cannot overlap.

> Thoughts?

Why do you think this proposal will make CC Mode faster?  Wouldn't
computing and updating the cells in itself be expensive?