Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi Stefan,

On 12.01.2021 06:21, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > BTW, writing it to disk becomes 10x faster if the tags file is visited
> > literally. I wonder if that mode could work well for most users. Some quick
> > testing showed that it's functional, though I'm guessing it won't work for
> > identifiers containing unicode characters.
>
> How 'bout saving it in `utf-8-emacs`?

Am I doing it right?

(let ((coding-system-for-write 'utf-8-emacs))
  (write-region (point-min) (point-max) buffer-file-name)))

shows only a 5-20% improvement in speed.