Re: why does M-w (kill-ring-save) hurt so bad?

On 17 Dec 2002 20:46:58 +0200 Ville Skyttä <scop(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: This is an interesting but artifical test (perhaps because of the absence of redisplay?). For me this takes: real 0m10.294s user 0m7.920s sys 0m0.770s (with a hot cache, most of the time appears to be spent loading my config). However, I don't start *macs up on demand, it's something that I work in. Try the following: xemacs -vanilla C-x C-f /tmp/vmlinux.S<ret> M-x font-lock-mode (this seems to do nothing because of the file size) M-x font-lock-fontify-buffer (wait and watch the bloat) Easily dismissed as a "don't do that". Except that GNU Emacs has no trouble with it. (Though from this, I can surmise that my font-lock setup may be incorrect/less than ideal ;-) -g