Re: 15 seconds to fontify index

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:42:19 -0400
> 
> For the Emacs Lisp Manual, info.el takes 15 seconds to fontify
> the index.

What kind of machine do you have there?  On mine (3-GHz single-core
CPU), it takes only 5 seconds, which is quite long, but not enough to
annoy.

> Perhaps we need to reduce the amount of fontification that is done
> on such a large node.  But we have to do SOMETHING.

The SOMETHING we should do is not introduce any new features where no
grave bugs require them.  This one is due to a change made in January.