Re: Why not enable font lock by default?
2007/7/18, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org>:
Jason Spiro writes:
> I am used to GNU Emacs and new to XEmacs. I wonder: How slow is plain
> font-lock on recent hardware (3 years old or less)? How common is it that
> people with such hardware get frustrated and decide to switch away from plain
> font-lock?
It's slow enought to cause noticable delays in loading files on a
4-core 1.8GHz Opteron box. Is that "recent" hardware?
How many seconds is the delay for a 100KB or so source file?
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