I've spent the last 2 hours trying to find a way to benchmark syntax. The easiest way I found to reproduce the speed regression is [1] included patches: 1148
results: engine 0 0.568 total engine 1 0.194 total (1/3 of time) engine 2 0.564 total $COLUMS = 146 $LINES = 40 (same happens increasing range from 1-10 to 1-100) You can find a repository I started to benchmark regressions here, its using a very similar test now. The first attemps I tried did not show this bad expected result: https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-regex2-regression-tests results (first number is regexpengine) ruby 0 3.20776391029 ruby 1 0.86368894577 ruby 2 3.3688378334 improvement: -290.052211 (almost 3 times slower !!) vim 0 0.0999271869659 vim 1 0.104474067688 vim 2 0.0911228656769 improvement: 12.779441 (12 % faster) This also uses syntime and dumps the results to a file. @Bram: If you send me the list of files you got for testing I'll add them. @Bram: the patch level in source.c is not up to date? Which is the best way to submit such regression tests to Vim? Marc Weber [1] test(){ time vim -u NONE -U NONE -N \ test2.rb \ --cmd 'set regexpengine='$1 \ --cmd 'filetype plugin on' \ --cmd 'syn on' \ -c 'for x in range(1,10)| redraw! |endfor' \ -c 'quit'; } to run it type this into your shell: test 0; test 1; test 2 -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.