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by hollerith 3868 days ago
>I don't find it to be slow with normal-sized sourcefiles. By "normal", I mean less than, say 5kb of text per file.

5 thousand bytes is pretty small. It is 122 lines of text if we use the average bytes per line of some code I have lying around (Emacs Lisp, exactly one byte per character, lines limited to 80 characters). For comparison, the average lines per file in the code I have lying around is 233.