Re: Emacs design and architecture

[Helmut Eller]

On Sun, Sep 17 2023, Gerd Möllmann wrote:

> Something like that could be an inspiration for a persisten buffer-text
> implementation, which I think would be a prerequisite for a parallel
> redisplay.  (I don't believe in the idea of a snapshort model for parallel
> redisplay anymore).  This would not solve overlays, text properties
> and what not, of course.

Out of curiosity: has somebody tried to vectorize the display code?

I don't know the details, but very abstractly speaking there seems to be
an iterator that loops over the characters in a buffer and computes
various things as it goes along.  Could some of those computations be
done on vectors, of say 8, characters?

Helmut