Re: Tree-sitter integration on feature/tree-sitter

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 15:20:18 -0400
> Cc: Yoav Marco <yoavm448@gmail.com>,
>  EMACS development team <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> While it's true that Emacs doesn't fontify whole buffers under the current 
> scheme, based on what I've read
> of tree-sitter (caveat: a fairly long while back), I think it might be 
> reasonable to move to a
> whole-buffer-and-repair strategy for emacs+treesit, and that might provide 
> some nice simplification along the
> way.

AFAIU, according to benchmarks shown in this thread, this strategy
will lead to several seconds of delay in response, at least for the
initial display.  I think this is too much; we should try getting rid
of such long delays.