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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs is slow  while processing a big file
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:39:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <853bgryu68.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qth21e.3a.ln@acm.acm

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Saravanan M D <Saravanan.MD@arm.com> wrote on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:55:39
> +0530:
>> I am using emacs-21.3. When i open a big file and navigate through it.
>> It is very slow even to get to the next page. If i open the same file
>> with gvim it is faster. what should i do to speed up this.
>
> Well, you could start by telling us a bit more about the file!  What
> "mode" was it loaded in, i.e. was it a text file, a C source file, or
> what?  How big was it?  Is there anything else noteworthy about the file?

I should not be surprised if he was using font-lock-mode.  There is a
reason we did not make it the default for Emacs-21.3.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-06  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.112.1144297582.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-06  8:02 ` emacs is slow while processing a big file Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-06  8:39   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-04-06  8:53 Saravanan M D
2006-04-06 16:21 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2006-04-06 18:33   ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-06 21:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-07  7:47       ` Reiner Steib
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-06  4:25 Saravanan M D

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