That makes sense to me. I don't know for sure that you're right but it sure seems plausible.
I do wonder how much of a range there is on non-brand-new computers though. I'm typing this on an M2 Max with 64GB of RAM. I also have a Raspberry Pi in the other room, and I know from hard experience that what runs screamingly fast on my Mac may be painfully slow on the Pi.
I could also imagine power benefits to an incremental model. If I type a single character in the middle of a 30KLOC document, a batch process would need to rescan the entire thing where a smart incremental process could say "yep, you're still in the middle of a string constant".
I do wonder how much of a range there is on non-brand-new computers though. I'm typing this on an M2 Max with 64GB of RAM. I also have a Raspberry Pi in the other room, and I know from hard experience that what runs screamingly fast on my Mac may be painfully slow on the Pi.
I could also imagine power benefits to an incremental model. If I type a single character in the middle of a 30KLOC document, a batch process would need to rescan the entire thing where a smart incremental process could say "yep, you're still in the middle of a string constant".