Re: How the long-lines "optimisation" breaks font locking.

[Ihor Radchenko]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>> No matter what criterion one deems "workable", there will be some size 
>> of buffer, or line, which renders Emacs "unworkable".
>>
>
> Wrong.  You can now edit files with 1 GB or 5 GB on a single line almost 
> fine.  The limit is now the amount of memory on your computer.  I keep 
> investigating to see if it's possible to overcome that limit.  Stay tuned!

Mmm... https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vlf.html ?