Re: [Bug: 21.4.13] fontifying is sloooooow
Ville Skyttä <scop(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
Fontifying anything with 21.4.13 is *very* slow, the progress meter
flashes a lot and seems like practically nothing is happening. By
pressing and holding Ctrl-C for a couple of seconds, the fontification
actually completes.
This is a Red Hat 9 box. 21.4.12 built with exactly same options
and setup doesn't exhibit this behaviour.
The gcc is "gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)" and
glibc is "glibc-2.3.2-27.9".
I'm seeing the same behavior on a RedHat 7.3 box with gcc 3.2.2. I
tried to erase something like 90% of an enormous bug report from a reply
I was writing in Gnus, and it froze up completely somewhere in
font-lock. I let it sit for something like 10 minutes while I did other
stuff. I had to C-g C-g to get control back, because a single C-g would
drop me straight back into font-lock again. I finally succeeded by
defining a keyboard macro that did C-x C-x C-w and running it, so that
font-lock wouldn't kick in between defining the region and killing it.
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Jerry James
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/