github syntax hilighting

[Don]

Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-01-26 20:30, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:21:55 Brad Roberts wrote:
>>> On 1/26/2011 7:13 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>> Anyone have any clue why this file is properly syntax-aware:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/rt/lif 
>>>>
>>>> etime.d
>>>>
>>>> but this file isn't
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/core/t 
>>>>
>>>> hread.d
>>>>
>>>> I'm still not familiar at all with git or github...
>>>>
>>>> -Steve
>>>
>>> I'm going to guess it's filesize.  Totally a guess, but consider that
>>> adding highlighting costs additional markup.  The file that's not
>>> highlighted is over 100k, the file that is is only(!) 62k.
>>
>> LOL. It won't even _show_ std.datetime. You may be on to something there.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> If github even won't show the file you clearly has too much in one file. 
> More than 34k lines of code (looking at the latest svn), are you kidding 
> me. That's insane, std.datetimem should clearly be a package. I don't 
> know why Andrei and Walter keeps insisting on having so much code in one 
> file
> 
> It takes about 10 seconds to get syntax highlighting at the bottom of 
> the file in TextMate.

You can compile the whole of Phobos in that time... <g>