Re: hang while marking large region

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
>>
>>> andrew.tao@gmail.com writes:
>>> Workaround: don't use XEmacs.
>>>
>>> This is a known problem.  I had this same problem and the solution was
>>> to switch.
>>>
>>> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-live-xemacs.html
>>
>> Well, this XEmacs (21.1.13) certainly lived long.  If you switched to a
>> similarly outdated Emacs, you would probably not gain much of an
>> advantage.
>
> Definitely.  My point was that one of the biggest things I noticed
> when converting from XEmacs to Emacs was that fontification no longer
> took the length of a bathroom break.  I thought it was just a fact of
> life.  I thought that it was just the subject of "Emacs Makes a
> Computer Slow."

It is not an accident.  Before font-lock-mode was allowed by Richard
Stallman to become the default in Emacs, its performance had to be par
for _all_ files.

So its proponents worked really hard.  The barriers in XEmacs are
smaller.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum