Setting up a new highlighter object is slightly expensive since it
reads and parses the langfile each time. So cache them.
This also speeds up ext2langfile by avoiding it needing to check for the
existence of a language file in some cases.
my %ext2lang;
my $filetypes_read=0;
my %ext2lang;
my $filetypes_read=0;
# Parse highlight's config file to get extension => language mappings.
sub read_filetypes () {
# Parse highlight's config file to get extension => language mappings.
sub read_filetypes () {
-sub langfile ($) {
- return "$langdefdir/$_[0].lang";
-}
# Given a filename extension, determines the language definition to
# use to highlight it.
sub ext2langfile ($) {
my $ext=shift;
# Given a filename extension, determines the language definition to
# use to highlight it.
sub ext2langfile ($) {
my $ext=shift;
+ my $langfile="$langdefdir/$ext.lang";
+ return $langfile if exists $highlighters{$langfile};
+
read_filetypes() unless $filetypes_read;
if (exists $ext2lang{$ext}) {
read_filetypes() unless $filetypes_read;
if (exists $ext2lang{$ext}) {
- return langfile($ext2lang{$ext});
+ return "$langdefdir/$ext2lang{$ext}.lang";
}
# If a language only has one common extension, it will not
# be listed in filetypes, so check the langfile.
}
# If a language only has one common extension, it will not
# be listed in filetypes, so check the langfile.
- elsif (-e langfile($ext)) {
- return langfile($ext);
+ elsif (-e $langfile) {
+ return $langfile;
- my $gen = highlightc::CodeGenerator_getInstance($highlightc::XHTML);
- $gen->setFragmentCode(1); # generate html fragment
- $gen->setHTMLEnclosePreTag(1); # include stylish <pre>
- $gen->initLanguage($langfile);
- $gen->initTheme("/dev/null"); # theme is not needed because CSS is not emitted
- $gen->setEncoding("utf-8");
+ my $gen;
+ if (! exists $highlighters{$langfile}) {
+ $gen = highlightc::CodeGenerator_getInstance($highlightc::XHTML);
+ $gen->setFragmentCode(1); # generate html fragment
+ $gen->setHTMLEnclosePreTag(1); # include stylish <pre>
+ $gen->initLanguage($langfile);
+ $gen->initTheme("/dev/null"); # theme is not needed because CSS is not emitted
+ $gen->setEncoding("utf-8");
+ $highlighters{$langfile}=$gen;
+ }
+ else {
+ $gen=$highlighters{$langfile};
+ }
- my $output=$gen->generateString($input);
- highlightc::CodeGenerator_deleteInstance($gen);
- return $output;
+ return $gen->generateString($input);