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From: | Chris Hecker |
Subject: | bug#59038: loading this base64 file makes emacs -Q 28.2 peg a core infinitely |
Date: | Sat, 5 Nov 2022 08:01:33 -0700 |
Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com> writes:
> Yeah? This isn’t 1970.
Emacs becoming unusable due to long lines has been fixed in Emacs 29.
> I have 32gb of ram and a 12 core cpu.
Physical memory and the number of processors installed does not really
matter here, unfortunately, as Emacs only uses one processor to process
your (27kb) file.
> (instantly, it’s 27kb)
Which is a lot, even in this day and age.
> or it should at least stop after a few ms and tell me it’s lame and
> needs me to switch manually to another mode.
A few ms is shorter than a roundtrip to and fro the X server over my
current connection. But:
> I mean, given the 28.2 user experience, there is no opportunity to
> switch to fundamental mode because emacs was hosed. I don’t even
> think ctrl-g worked for me.
All of this is no longer a problem in Emacs 29, and even if you somehow
still cause redisplay to become wedged, you can set max-redisplay-ticks
to a suitable value.
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