This is not from emacs -Q, and I do have many fonts installed. I repeated it from emacs -Q and I've attached those profiler reports also. But with emacs -Q the test code (`my-test') finished immediately. With my setup it took many seconds. I use this font by default - dunno whether that makes the difference: (font . "-outline-Lucida Console-normal-normal-normal-mono-4-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1") (font-parameter . "-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1") Recipe I followed: Evaluate the attached code (`throw-mule-bug.el'), then look at buffers *CPU Profiler Report* and *Memory Profiler Report*. I've attached these reports as files: throw-mule-bug-memory-report-E26-Q - Emacs 26 from emacs -Q throw-mule-bug-cpu-report-E26-Q - Emacs 26 from emacs -Q throw-mule-bug-memory-report-E24 - Emacs 24.5 with my setup throw-mule-bug-cpu-report-E24 - Emacs 24.5 with my setup throw-mule-bug-memory-report-E26 - Emacs 26P2 with my setup throw-mule-bug-cpu-report-E26 - Emacs 26P2 with my setup In Emacs 25.3.1 and 26 `char-displayable-p' is MUCH slower than it is in Emacs 24.5. In 24.5 the evaluation of `my-test' seems instantaneous. In Emacs 26 it takes many seconds. From the reports, using my setup: E26 memory: - my-delete-if-not 225,165,075 52% - let 222,218,069 51% - while 222,218,069 51% - if 222,218,069 51% - not 222,218,069 51% - funcall 222,218,069 51% - my-char-displayable-p 222,218,069 51% - char-displayable-p 222,218,069 51% - cond 222,218,069 51% let 189,022,646 43% - while 2,947,006 0% - and 2,947,006 0% - not 2,947,006 0% - funcall 2,947,006 0% - my-char-displayable-p 2,947,006 0% - char-displayable-p 2,947,006 0% - cond 2,947,006 0% let 1,836,898 0% E26 cpu: - my-delete-if-not 1609 70% - let 1602 70% - while 1602 70% - if 1602 70% - not 1602 70% - funcall 1602 70% - my-char-displayable-p 1602 70% - char-displayable-p 1602 70% - cond 1602 70% let 1602 70% - while 7 0% - and 7 0% - not 7 0% - funcall 7 0% - my-char-displayable-p 7 0% - char-displayable-p 7 0% - cond 7 0% let 7 0% In GNU Emacs 26.0.91 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2018-01-22 Repository revision: 752fba992b793a74d202c9cfc3e1a92fd458e748 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''