Creating a new X frame takes about two seconds on my system, which is
long enough a delay to be distracting.  My little profiling session
determined that most of this time is spent in xic_create_fontset,
calling XCreateFontSet.  Is it really necessary to create a new
fontset for each new frame?  Can I do something to speed this up?

(`xlsfonts | wc -l' reports that I have 6205 fonts on my system.)

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Károly