This information is useful when you want to build several SyntaxSets, but
without having to duplicate SyntaxDefinitions. For example:
"Rust" has no dependencies. But "Markdown" depends on "Rust". With the data
structures this code adds, we know that "Rust" is a dependent syntax for
"Markdown", and can construct a SyntaxSet that takes that into account.
Note that code has a temporary environment flag to ignore any information about
dependents when constructing SyntaxSets. Code that makes use of the new data
structure will be added later.
This significantly speeds up the startup time of bat, since only a single
linked SyntaxDefinition is loaded for each file. The size increase of the
binary is just ~400 kB.
In order for startup time to be improved, the --language arg must be used, and
it must match one of the following names:
"Plain Text", "ActionScript", "AppleScript", "Batch File", "NAnt Build File",
"C#", "C", "CSS", "D", "Diff", "Erlang", "Go", "Haskell", "JSON", "Java
Properties", "BibTeX", "LaTeX Log", "TeX", "Lisp", "Lua", "MATLAB", "Pascal",
"R", "Regular Expression", "Rust", "SQL", "Scala", "Tcl", "XML", "YAML", "Apache
Conf", "ARM Assembly", "Assembly (x86_64)", "CMakeCache", "Comma Separated
Values", "Cabal", "CoffeeScript", "CpuInfo", "Dart Analysis Output", "Dart",
"Dockerfile", "DotENV", "F#", "Friendly Interactive Shell (fish)", "Fortran
(Fixed Form)", "Fortran (Modern)", "Fortran Namelist", "fstab", "GLSL",
"GraphQL", "Groff/troff", "group", "hosts", "INI", "Jinja2", "jsonnet",
"Kotlin", "Less", "LLVM", "Lean", "MemInfo", "Nim", "Ninja", "Nix", "passwd",
"PowerShell", "Protocol Buffer (TEXT)", "Puppet", "Rego", "resolv", "Robot
Framework", "SML", "Strace", "Stylus", "Solidity", "Vyper", "Swift",
"SystemVerilog", "TOML", "Terraform", "TypeScript", "TypeScriptReact",
"Verilog", "VimL", "Zig", "gnuplot", "log", "requirements.txt", "Highlight
non-printables", "Private Key", "varlink"
Later commits will improve startup time for more code paths.
* fix some typos and misspellings
* CHANGELOG.md: Add Performance section (preliminary)
* Add a CHANGELOG.md entry for this PR
This will be needed to later support zero-copy deserialization of independent
syntax sets, but is interesting and useful on its own.
Instead of deferring serialization and deserialization to syntect, we implement it
ourselves in the same way, but make compression optional.
We can't use #[from] on Error::Msg(String) because String does not implement Error.
(Which it shouldn't; see e.g. https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/impl-error-for-string/8881.)
So we implement From manually for Error::Msg, since our current code was written
in that way for error-chain.
Move code to build assets to its own file. That results in better modularity and flexibility.
It also allows us to simplify HighlightingAssets a lot, since it will now always
be initialized with a SerializedSyntaxSet.
To improve startup performance, we will later load smaller `SyntaxSet`s instead
of one giant one. However, the current API assumes only one `SyntaxSet` is ever used,
and that that implicitly is the `SyntaxSet` from which returned `SyntaxReference`s
comes.
This change changes the API to reflect that `SyntaxSet` and `SyntaxReference`
are tightly coupled, and enables the use of several `SyntaxSet`.
