Re: Display slowness that is painful

[Andreas Schwab]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     When I visit a 13MB binary file (eg. the Emacs binary) I can hardly notice
>     a slowdown here.
>
> I felicitate you on having found a case in which the problem
> does not occur.  Unfortunately, there are also cases where it does.

I was able to reproduce it with your test case, the key difference appears
to be the extraordinary long lines.

Andreas.

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