Re: Slow operations on buffers of tens of megabytes

[Elias Oltmanns]

Hi all,

sorry for the delayed response, I've been rather busy these days.

@Reiner: Thanks for Cc-ing me, otherwise I'd most likely have missed
this thread.

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09 2006, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
>> Ultimately, I'm a bit concerned about messing with the case table of
>> an nnfolder buffer for the entire duration of the buffer.  It's hard
>> to tell whether there'd be any less visible fallouts.
>
> Richard has eliminated the peculiar upcasing dotless-i to I in CVS.
> Does it fix your problem?

Yes, it does. I'm quite pleased that this issue has been settled in
emacs as its a fairly generic one, in my opinion. However, I'm
wondering whether there will be more of these in store after the
switch to the unicode based emacs 23. Without really knowing anything
about emacs 23, I'm just curious to know if something like a generic
mechanism to restrict pattern matching for heavily used functions like
re-search-forward to some limitted case tables, e.g., the ASCII table,
will be provided (if applicable, that is) by emacs.

Regards,

Elias