Subject: bug#2056: 23.0.60; Enabling flyspell degrades performance

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:10:55 +0300

> From: Leo <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:02:21 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> On 2009-04-14 05:34 +0100, Miles Bader wrote:
> [...]
> > Hmm, it may be a macos problem, because on this system (also a core2duo,
> > though with only 1GB of RAM...) there's no perceptible delay when doing
> > the above.
> 
> How to verify whether that is indeed the culprit?

Try running Emacs under strace (or any equivalent, if that's not the
name of the utility on MacOS), and post the results here.  Maybe the
trace will show what takes so long.

> And how to fix it?

That depends on the findings, obviously.