Re: Emacs design and architecture. How about copy-on-write?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> The algorithm I have in mind is to change interval tree to store several
>> trees together - a common tree storing segments delimited by _a_
>> property change + a tree for individual properties. That way, looking up
>> for next single property change will be a simple call to next_interval for
>> the property itself + property aliases.
>
> Feel free to implement that and benchmark it against the current
> implementation.  If it's significantly faster, I';m sure we will
> accept the changes.

It is on my todo list.