On 1/10/11 8:32 PM, Jambunathan K wrote:
> 
>>> The fontification messages cause noticeable slowdowns on OS X[1] in
>>> certain situations (e.g. viewing src code blocks in org-mode with
>>> `org-src-fontify-natively' turned on).
> 
> FWIW, I use Emacs on Windows. Having zero verbosity does improve the
> user experience tremedously.

ISTR a "huge performance increase" in garbage collection that came about
solely as a result of making garbage-collection-messages default to nil.
Perception is important.