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occasional slow performance in some Gnus code

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Message #120 received at 18522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Münster <pmlists <at> free.fr>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, larsi <at> gnus.org, 18522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18522: 24.4.50; mapcar is very slow
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 22:45:34 +0200

> From: Peter Münster <pmlists <at> free.fr>
> Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at,  larsi <at> gnus.org,  18522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:03:49 +0100
> 
> On Sun, Feb 21 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Does this happen only with this particular symbol, or binding any
> > symbol slows down?
> 
> It depends on the symbol:
> 
> case-fold-search:     slow
> fill-column:          slow
> just-a-symbol:        fast
> custom-file:          fast
> 
> Can you reproduce it?

I see a 5-fold slow-down with case-fold-search, not a 30-fold as you
reported.

It sounds like the difference is between buffer-local variables and
global variables.  Setting the former will potentially loop over all
the buffers and set the value for every buffer that doesn't have a
local value.  See data.c around line 1517.  How many buffers do you
have in the "slow" version?  I have 230.

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