Re: 7.4 syntax matching seems noticable slower than 7.3

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On August 10, 2014 12:01:21 AM GMT+03:00, "L. A. Walsh" <vim@tlinx.org> wrote:
>I was editing a largish perl program in 7.4 that I hadn't worked on,
>probably
>since 7.3 was on my machine.
>
>I noticed it was very sluggish in scrolling and even echoing key
>functions.
>
>I tried turning syntax=off, and noticed no slowdown at all.
>
>I then tried reinstalling the old 7.3 -- and notice that while not as
>fast
>as "nosyntax", the new syntax parsing is noticeably more slow than
>it was in 7.3.
>
>I think my vim 7.4 was @ patch level 53 or so, (whatever my
>distro included)... Has this been substantially improved, or should
>I stick with 7.3 for a while? or what?
>
>thanks...
>
>
>
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Check out the 're' option and related documentation. Your problems may be and are likely caused by the new regular expression engine. You may still force Vim to use the old one though.
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