slower and slower perl parse on UNIX, not PC

[Matthew Persico]

On 6/28/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Persico <matthew.persico at gmail.com> writes:
>
>     Matthew> The delay in both versions is at the point where the
>     Matthew> Fontifying (rexexps) is displayed in the progress meter.
>
>     Matthew> Why would the Solaris version be so much slower?
>
> AFAIK the regexp and font-lock code are identical in both versions (of
> course the Lisp is, but both modules are highly dependent on C support
> so there's a possibility of difference.)
>
> Are you building with Mule?

No, I'm Mule-less.

>Er, scratch that, just send the usual bug
> report for both platforms.  Thanks!

No, thank you!

Should I send each one separately to the usual place, with the same
subject to coordinate them, or combine them and post here?

>
> Also, try nuking the progress meter, which is a substantially
> different implementation and known to be very buggy on X11.
>
>     (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t)
>
No difference  - still molasses-slow.


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Matthew O. Persico