Re: lax matching is not a great default behavior

[Mark Oteiza]

Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:

> On 1 Dec 2015 6:49 pm, "Mark Oteiza" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I think the performance hit of char-folding is a good reason to disable
>> it. (Perhaps it's much worse for me since this emacs is not optimized.)
>
> I honestly didn't notice a performance hit, and I compile without
> optimizations. Is there a particular search-term/buffer-contents that
> lead to your problem?

Example of a long symbol in elisp: try searching for
"tty-set-up-initial-frame-faces" in faces.el

Searching for "free software foundation" in NEWS is also very slow.

(Yes, I know symbol search and word search are things)