Re: Optimizing performance of buffer markers

[Stefan Monnier]

> If that is going to be our advice,

That wouldn't be a general advice, but rather for specific cases where
performance proves problematic.  In any case, this is quite
hypothetical: we don't know yet whether that branch would help Org's
specific use-case.  And the code needs some work before we can merge it
(it's about 5 years old).

> it would make sense to reimplement markers as a kind of overlays, so
> that Lisp programs shouldn't bother with this trick.

That's a possibility, but this would require further changes for the
charpos<->bytepos conversion.


        Stefan