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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@fencepost.gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ediff-next-difference very slow
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:11:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16xsxj-0004m5-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15549.37203.921263.806460@tfkp00.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (message from Roland Winkler on Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:14:27 +0200)

> From: Roland Winkler <roland.winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:14:27 +0200
> 
> On Wed Apr 17 2002 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > It seems that having many overlays in a buffer slows down Emacs quite
> > a bit.  Perhaps this problem is another manifestation of that?
> 
> This is something I do not understand: Is it sufficient here for
> slowing emacs down that one buffer of all the open buffers has many
> overlays?

I don't think this riddle is solved yet; please wait for Richard to
chime in, he was following this problem.

> The point is that the buffers involved in the ediff
> session are the same in a fresh emacs session and in an emacs
> session that is running for many days.

Yes, someone else reported a similar problem with RMAIL buffers:
after a while, RMAIL becomes painfully slow.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-17 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-17 13:21 ediff-next-difference very slow Roland Winkler
2002-04-17 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17 15:14   ` Roland Winkler
2002-04-17 17:11     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-04-18 18:44     ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-19 21:31 Michael Kifer
2002-04-20 12:02 ` Roland Winkler
2002-04-22  8:46 ` Ralf Fassel

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