Is there a more efficient approach to updating decorations when the document changes than scanning the entire document?

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If there’s a way to change the decorations when the document changes without having to re-process the entire document upon every change, I’m overlooking it. Is there some approach to this?

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Depends on what you need to decorate. Mapping the decorations and only scanning near changes should be possible. But in general doing a scan over the document is also not going to be very expensive.

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Thanks for your reply. My concern is mostly that we have say 5 types of decorations which each are managed in their own plugins. Is worrying about those premature optimization, or does this become something to worry about at a certain point?

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Measure it, I would say.

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