Re: State of the overlay tree branch?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:12:41 -0400
> 
> > Also, what about my suggestion to count lines in a relative manner,
> > using count-lines from a line with a known number?  You never replied
> > to that suggestion.
> 
> FWIW, I believe in his case most of the time is spent outside of the
> actual "count the lines" (aka forward-line) code, so counting fewer
> lines because we start from a more nearby position probably won't help
> very much.

I'm not sure, because the profile indicates memrchr is a significant
runner-up in the CPU time usage.