Emacs 25.1 on Windows, including the new optimized build, is much slower than Emacs 24.5 was when navigating files which contain Unicode characters such as ΆΜ . Cursor movement noticeably stutters when using arrow keys or typing on a line which contains that character. Just try moving the cursor along the two lines below to see the difference: Char: ΆΜ (9641, #o22651, #x25a9, file ...) point=299 of 4451 (7%) column=19 Char: (9641, #o22651, #x25a9, file ...) point=299 of 4451 (7%) column=19 In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-11-10 built on LAPHROAIG Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: 'configure --without-dbus --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS Important settings: value of $LANG: C locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: midnight-mode: t auto-image-file-mode: t diff-auto-refine-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t auto-fill-function: do-auto-fill transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: Loading magit-autorevert...done Loading midnight...done Loading paren...done 0 buffers purged For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-11-10 d:/home/peromsik/fixes/41regp30/tha_bas_assmcut_bf02_p20/p30ntmp/std.out Mark saved where search started [2 times] d:/home/peromsik/fixes/41regp30/tha_bas_assmcut_bf02_p20/p30imr/std.out Mark saved where search started [2 times] Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epg gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils dired-aux misearch multi-isearch org-install esh-var esh-io esh-cmd esh-opt esh-ext esh-proc esh-arg esh-groups eshell esh-module esh-mode esh-util jka-compr paren midnight magit-autorevert autorevert filenotify magit-git cl-seq crm magit-section magit-utils dash ido icomplete image-file cus-start cus-load server ps-print ps-def lpr diff-mode easy-mmode grep compile ediff-merg ediff-wind ediff-diff ediff-mult ediff-help ediff-init ediff-util ediff ccase ptctags ptcsrc warnings advice dired-x dired ptc-comment aap-autoload shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs time finder-inf go-mode-autoloads info package epg-config seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode easymenu cconv cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote w32notify w32 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 255848 15149) (symbols 56 33020 0) (miscs 48 127 185) (strings 32 77739 8844) (string-bytes 1 2075782) (vectors 16 27303) (vector-slots 8 674830 18474) (floats 8 473 135) (intervals 56 1273 1083) (buffers 976 70))