Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: I often use emacs for writing LaTeX, with the help of "aspell" as a spell-checking program. With the nextstep port of Emacs 23.1.1, spell-checking a latex document is approximately 50 times slower than spell-checking the same latex document with Emacs 22.3.1. My test case uses the LaTeX version of GPL 3.0. I've posted a copy of the latex file here: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~srevilak/images/gpl-3.0.tex I will also attempt to attach a copy of gpl-3.0.tex to this bug report. If you examine this copy of gpl-3.0.tex, you'll notice a "LocalWords" section at the bottom. As a preparation step, I've run this file through ispell-buffer, and used `A' to add all misspelled words. The goal is to see how long it takes ispell-buffer to spell check the file, and declare that there are no spelling errors. Specific steps to reproduce: 1) start emacs, with --no-init-file shell> /Applications/Emacs-23.1.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs --no-init-file 2) switch to scratch buffer C-x b *scratch* RETURN 3) specify aspell as the ispell program ;; eval with C-x C-e (setq ispell-program "aspell") 4) Open gpl-3.0.tex C-x f /path/to/gpl-3.0.tex RETURN 5) spell-check the buffer M-x ispell-buffer RETURN Again, I've arranged things such that there are no spelling errors for aspell to find. The nextstep port of emacs 23.1.1 takes 57 seconds to spell-check gpl-3.0.tex. By contrast, an older version of emacs: GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2009-03-28 on spud.local takes less that 1 second to perform the same task, on the same computer, using the same aspell binary. As another point of contrast GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.1) of 2009-10-24 on build16 running on a GNU/Linux system also takes less than 1 second to accomplish this task. Thus, the `slow ispell-buffer' behavior appears to be specific to the nextstep port of emacs 23.1.1, compiled on Mac OS X. The version of aspell that I am using: @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6) uname -a output for this system: Darwin spud.local 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file /Applications/Emacs-23.1.app/Contents/Resources/etc/DEBUG for instructions. In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, NS apple-appkit-824.48) of 2009-10-14 on spud.local Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.824 configured using `configure '--with-ns'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: C value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: LaTeX Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x b ( s e t q SPC ' i s p e l l - p r o g r a m SPC " a p s e s p e l l " ) C-x C-e C-x C-f D e g p s-x M-x i s p - b s-x M-x i s p e l l - b u C-x C-s M-x r e p o r t - e m Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. "aspell" kill-region: The mark is not set now, so there is no region Starting new Ispell process [default] ... Spell-checking gpl-3.0.tex using aspell with default dictionary...done kill-region: The mark is not set now, so there is no region Spell-checking gpl-3.0.tex using aspell with default dictionary...done Saving file /Users/srevilak/Desktop/gpl-3.0.tex... Wrote /Users/srevilak/Desktop/gpl-3.0.tex