Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:43:00 -0400
> 
> On 28/03/2020 05.58, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I think the way to increase performance of C/C++ fontification,
> > indentation, etc. is to use syntactic analysis in C (or another
> > similarly fast compiled language).  Several programs/libraries are
> > available out there for this purpose, and we should encourage
> > interested individuals to work on making these used by our major modes
> > that support programming languages.  The time we could do that with
> > ad-hoc regexps and the likes of syntax-ppss has gone, IMO.
> 
> I've looked, but I don't really know of any such libraries.

What about tree-sitter?

> The problem that cc-mode has to solve most of the time is fontifying an 
> invalid C program (since, unless the programmer is using a structural editing 
> mode), code that is being typed is invalid most of the time.  Most language 
> parsing facilities out there do not have great error recovery, so they are 
> not very good at giving semantic annotations useful for syntax highlighting 
> broken code.

AFAIK, tree-sitter's use cases include the above.