bug#69140: 30.0.50; [elpa/vertico] Emacs with vertico-mode freezes if font is too big

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Aleksandr Vityazev <avityazev@disroot.org>
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com,  mail@daniel-mendler.de,  69140@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 23:22:27 +0300
> 
> On 2024-02-21 21:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > What you "eval-buffer", is the Emacs frame visible in its entirety on
> > the screen, or are parts of it hidden because the font is too large?
> 
> part of the mode-lane is hidden, but otherwise everything is visible

This situation works well here, it doesn't hang.

> > I tried different fonts and different sizes, and as long as I can see
> > the frame on the screen, I don't see any hangs.  Maybe this only
> > happens with pathologically large fonts, with which only a small part
> > of the frame can be seen, but if so, why is this situation
> > interesting?
> >
> 
> with (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "monospace" :height 440)
> the result is the following:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (list (window-height) (window-width)) => (13 53)
> 
> C-u C-x = (what-cursor-position) =>
> 
> display: by this font (glyph code):
> ftcrhb:-    -Go Mono-regular-normal-normal-*-58-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x37)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> I think this is still a reasonable size. I usually have my font height
> set to 240, and recently I noticed that vertico was starting to lag at
> this setting. Researching further, I found that the larger the font, the
> more obvious the hang, and I also found the commit after which it all
> started. I think that there is a bug here, but we need to investigate it
> further and check it without pgtk on X.

Could someone please reproduce and investigate?  Po Lu, any
suggestions or ideas?