Subject: bug#16875: python, comint-mode: Large output makes Emacs freeze

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 07:03:12 +0300

> From: [email-masked] (Fabián Ezequiel Gallina)
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 23:22:41 -0300
> 
> 
> Emacs is still slow, but at least responds to commands.  I feel that
> everything that could be optimized on the comint side is pretty much
> there and that the slowness being experienced is in fact related to the
> long-lines slowness bug mentioned before[0].

That bug is about displaying long lines.  Is the code that is slow
involved in displaying such lines?  If there's no display involved,
then the discussion you point to is not relevant.

Also, please tell how long are your lines, on the average.