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Problem: YAML syntax highlighting is slow; the yamlInteger and yamlFloat
rules alone account for over half of the parsing time.
Solution: The number, null and timestamp scalar patterns begin with a
lookbehind, which stops the regexp engine from using a
first-character search, so the automatic engine selects the
much slower NFA engine. Force the backtracking engine with
\%#=1 on these patterns for a large speedup with identical
matches (Jordan).
On a 40000-line YAML file the total :syntime drops by about 30%: the
yamlFloat rule goes from 0.61s to 0.17s and yamlInteger from 0.42s to 0.31s.
The engine override is applied only to the lookbehind-anchored number rules;
forcing it on the structural plain-scalar and mapping-key patterns regresses
them badly, so those are left on the automatic engine.
closes: vim/vim#21182
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Co-authored-by: Julien Voisin <julien.voisin@dustri.org>
