Re: Optimizing performance of buffer markers

[Stefan Monnier]

> Landing that branch is indeed a very Good Thing, but AFAIU this
> discussion revealed that Org adds quite a few markers of its own when
> it parses the buffer, because it wants to track the positions of some
> syntactic elements of the buffer.

That's quite unusual, tho, and I suspect that Org's code could be
changed to use overlays instead (after all, we could define an
"efficient marker" as (make-overlay POS POS)).


        Stefan