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Problem: While advancing the syntax highlighting, store_current_state()
calls syn_stack_find_entry() about once per parsed line, and
that function rescans the state-cache list from its head every
time. With the list capped at 1000 entries this linear rescan
dominates the cost of highlighting a large file.
Solution: Keep a cached position to the entry last located in the list
and resume the scan from it when it is at or before the wanted
line, advancing the finger as new states are stored
(Julien Voisin).
The list is sorted by line number, so when the remembered entry is at or
before the wanted line the answer can only follow it, never precede it;
resuming from there returns the same entry as a scan from the head. The
"at or before" guard keeps this correct for any lookup order: a backward
or random-access lookup whose remembered entry is past the wanted line
falls back to a full scan. The pointer is cleared whenever an entry is
freed, the array is reallocated or the block is freed, so it cannot
dangle.
Parsing the syntax of a 20000-line C file is about a third faster, a
5000-line file about a quarter faster, benchmarked via something like
this:
```
call synID(1, 1, 1) " warm-up
let s = reltime()
for l in range(1, line('$')) | call synID(l, 1, 1) | endfor
call writefile([reltimefloat(reltime(s))], $T)
```
closes: vim/vim#21166
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Co-authored-by: Julien Voisin <julien.voisin@dustri.org>
Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:
- Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions
- Split the work between multiple developers
- Enable advanced UIs without modifications to the core
- Maximize extensibility
See the Introduction wiki page and Roadmap for more information.
Features
- Modern GUIs
- API access from any language including C/C++, C#, Clojure, D, Elixir, Go, Haskell, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/Node.js, Julia, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, Racket, Ruby, Rust
- Embedded, scriptable terminal emulator
- Asynchronous job control
- Shared data (shada) among multiple editor instances
- XDG base directories support
- Compatible with most Vim plugins, including Ruby and Python plugins
See :help nvim-features for the full list, and :help news for noteworthy changes in the latest version!
Install from package
Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are found on the Releases page.
Managed packages are in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Void Linux, Gentoo, and more!
Install from source
See BUILD.md and supported platforms for details.
The build is CMake-based, but a Makefile is provided as a convenience. After installing the dependencies, run the following command.
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
sudo make install
To install to a non-default location:
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/full/path/
make install
CMake hints for inspecting the build:
cmake --build build --target helplists all build targets.build/CMakeCache.txt(orcmake -LAH build/) contains the resolved values of all CMake variables.build/compile_commands.jsonshows the full compiler invocations for each translation unit.
Transitioning from Vim
See :help nvim-from-vim for instructions.
Project layout
├─ cmake/ CMake utils
├─ cmake.config/ CMake defines
├─ cmake.deps/ subproject to fetch and build dependencies (optional)
├─ runtime/ plugins and docs
├─ src/nvim/ application source code (see src/nvim/README.md)
│ ├─ api/ API subsystem
│ ├─ eval/ Vimscript subsystem
│ ├─ event/ event-loop subsystem
│ ├─ generators/ code generation (pre-compilation)
│ ├─ lib/ generic data structures
│ ├─ lua/ Lua subsystem
│ ├─ msgpack_rpc/ RPC subsystem
│ ├─ os/ low-level platform code
│ └─ tui/ built-in UI
└─ test/ tests (see test/README.md)
License
Neovim contributions since b17d96 are licensed under the
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vim-patch token). See LICENSE.txt for details.