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I have this in my .emacs file:

(set-default-font "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")

But it take 10-15 seconds longer than normal to start up because of this
line.

Why does emacs performance gets reduced when setting another default font?