bug#2963: wishlist: improve speed of `make-overlay'

[Mauro Aranda]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> The complexity of `make-overlay' appears to be O(N), which makes it
>> unbearably slow for larger buffers.
>
> Andreas did a lot of work on reimplementing the overlay internals a few
> years back -- but I see that it was never merged?
>
> Andreas, what's the state of the feature/noverlay branch?

This message was 2 years ago.  Meanwhile the feature/noverlay branch got
merged.  Maybe this can be closed.  CCing Stefan M.