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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 23431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr
Subject: bug#23431: 25.0.93; EWW hangs
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 19:20:25 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 17:57:59 +0200
> Cc: 23431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> First of all: Can the animation function determine that it's making
> Emacs unresponsive?  I guess it could keep track of how much time is
> passing between each time it's called, and if that's longer than the
> timeout, it should ... postpone itself a bit further to allow some
> keystrokes to get in between each frame?

Can you show how that function is called on the Lisp level?

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