Kristoffer Balintona <krisbalint...@gmail.com> writes: > Is there a necessity for org-element’s cache to be sparse? Is it mostly > to avoid having to parse entire buffers (or at least large chunks of > them) when they change? When I first heard about org’s caching, I had > the (extremely) naive question of what technical reasons there are to > not just store entire parse trees in a cache, even an on-disk one.
Yes, it is to avoid having to parse the entire buffer. Full re-parsing on every change is simply too slow. Not just for Org, but for anything. tree-sitter works the same. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
