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Displaying animated GIFs can make Emacs unresponsive

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.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 19:48:30 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
>> Cc: 23431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr
>> Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 19:39:02 +0200
>> 
>> But anyway, this is all besides to point:  The question is still whether
>> we can detect that the animation is making Emacs slow, and whether
>> injecting some more delay (dynamically) into the animation timeout will
>> fix it.
>
> Shouldn't we first understand why Emacs is so slow?  See my message
> about the profile.

Yes, you are completely right.  I thought I had looked at this a year
ago and determined that it was just slow because decoding the animated
image was slow, but if it's due to something else, that would be nice.
:-)

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