Re: CC Mode with font-lock-maximum-decoration 2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 19:09:50 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > > We lose accuracy.  That is important to a lot of people, including the
> > > many who have sent in bug reports because of lack of accuracy.
> 
> > Then what is the importance of these measurements of yours?
> 
> They show that an attempt to speed up CC Mode/2 should be concentrating
> on the code which isn't fontification code.

Please elaborate on this conclusion, because I don't think I
understand how you arrived at it, based on your measurements.  With
the default value of font-lock-maximum-decoration, the fontifications
are also very slow, relatively to other modes.