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> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 15:20:54 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> I think we should make this variable non-nil by default on
> MS-Windows.
> 
> There are quite a few bug reports in the bug DB which all complain
> about slow redisplay on MS-Windows, and were resolved by setting this
> variable non-nil.  So it sounds like on MS-Windows the compacting of
> the font caches is not a good idea (the original code was written to
> fix a problem observed on X).
> 
> Any objections/comments?

No objections, so I've now made such a change on master.