Subject: bug#14966: 24.3.50; Char-displayable-p is a very long running function

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:21:37 -0400

> when running on mains. If running on battery, that figure would even be
> multiplied by a factor ~3.5.

By "would be" you mean you haven't actually tried it?

I'd expect that the 400ms are not all spent waiting for the CPU, but
some non-negligible part of it is spent waiting for I/O, so it might
not take much more time with a CPU running 5 times slower.

        Stefan