GNU bug report logs - #23431
Displaying animated GIFs can make Emacs unresponsive

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Message #148 received at 23431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#23431: 25.0.93; EWW hangs
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 17:26:15 +0200

> so is it okay to close the bug?

Please go ahead.

>> (I'm impatiently waiting for it to migrate into the 25 branch).

> It most probably never will.

Ah?

>> But what about the 6-second hang, which I can reproduce even with
>> with shr-image-animate set to nil?  Should decoding of large images
>> happen asynchronously, or is shr not designed for that?

> We don't have infrastructure for doing this asynchronously.  [...] It's
> not shr that is not designed for that, it's Emacs itself.

I see.  That's too bad.

Thanks again,

-- Juliusz

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