Re: Major modes using `widen' is a good, even essential, programming practice.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: acm@muc.de,  gregory@heytings.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 08:05:31 -0400
> 
> >> For GB-sized buffers, even the fast C code of `syntax-ppss` incurs
> >> a significant delay in the "unusual" case, so have various options:
> >
> > I reported this for a 18MB single-line file, which is way below the GB
> > bar.
> 
> On my own builds (which are slow on old machines), 18MB typically
> results in a delay of just a few seconds.

Optimized build or unoptimized?

And is that before or after the syntax-wholeline-max limitation?