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23.0.60; Enabling flyspell degrades performance

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Message #43 received at 2056 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>, 2056 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2056: 23.0.60; Enabling flyspell degrades performance
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:09:15 +0300

> From: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:48:58 +0100
> Cc: 
> 
> I'd like to point out that with turn-on-flyspell added to
> text-mode-hook. M-x report-emacs-bug will take 9.8 seconds to set up the
> mail buffer in my fairly modern machine (intel core 2 duo with 4G ram).
> I do this measurement using stopwatch from the moment I hit RET at the
> SUBJECT prompt and the result is reproducible. The process is instant
> without flyspell.

I don't see this on my machine (Windows XP), there's no visible delay.

Could it be that somehow each time you do this the speller sub-process
is started (because it is killed when the mail buffer is killed)?
That shouldn't be the case, but I have no other ideas, except
something platform-specific, as Miles suggested.

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