> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 15:24:19 +0100
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
>  > .... scrolling through an elisp buffer: I started the timer by hand and
>  > scrolled down for 1000 lines ....
>
>  How, exactly, did you do the scrolling?  How did you stop the scrolling
>  at 1000 lines?  Do you get this slowness on any elisp buffer, or is it a
>  particular one?
>
> I used my phone timer. It was my init.el file but I get the same result with dired.el

You didn't answer the question about the exact way of scrolling you
used.

Also, did you measure the CPU time it took, out of those 35 sec?  (I
assume the time you measured was elapsed time, yes?)

>  > .... and it took 45s on Windows/WSL and 35s on Windows/native.
>
>  That is slow indeed.
>
> Definitely.

Not necessarily.  The elapsed time has little to do with the speed we
scroll.