patch 8.1.0710: when using timers may wait for job exit quite long commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c46af534102c65b43912311d67f55f5049e5ef7a Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Wed Jan 9 22:24:49 2019 +0100 patch 8.1.0710: when using timers may wait for job exit quite long Problem: When using timers may wait for job exit quite long. Solution: Return from ui_wait_for_chars_or_timer() when a job or channel needs to be handled. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes #3783)

"Test for benchmarking the RE engine

so small.vim
if !has("reltime") | finish | endif
func! Measure(file, pattern, arg)
	for re in range(3)
	    let sstart=reltime()
	    let cmd=printf("../vim -u NONE -N --cmd ':set re=%d'".
		\ " -c 'call search(\"%s\", \"\", \"\", 10000)' -c ':q!' %s", re, escape(a:pattern, '\\'), empty(a:arg) ? '' : a:arg)
	    call system(cmd. ' '. a:file)
	    $put =printf('file: %s, re: %d, time: %s', a:file, re, reltimestr(reltime(sstart)))
	endfor
endfunc