On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> > That said, should there be a real problem with the ns port, or a valuable
> > feature inherent to the mac port, I will be glad to apply effort where
> > needed.
>
> AFAIK, there's a "fundamental" problem in the way C-g (and generally
> the event-loop) is handled which can cause excessive delays.
> I do not know enough to say much more, but if someone could take on the
> task of trying to fix this problem, I'm sure he'd find people here who
> could better explain the problem.
>

If I can repeat the bad behavior, then I will work on coming up with a fix.

btw, I replied to Ivan on the flyspell issue saying pretty much the same
thing but neglected to cc emacs-devel.  My bad.

-pmr