Re: redisplay - very long lines

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:26:25 -0500
> 
> > still need to walk to the end of a line before we are able to display
> > it and all the lines after it.
> 
> In the above, when you say "line" do you mean "visual line" or "textual
> line"?  IIUC we need to walk till the end of the visual line, but not
> till the end of the textual line, so that shouldn't cause a slowdown
> proportional to the length of the textual line.

I thought we walked to the end of the textual line, but maybe I'm
misremembering what redisplay does.