Subject: Re: bug#24918: 25.1; Fonts can make Emacs grind to a halt

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:01:32 +0200

unarchive 24565 15876
close 24918
merge 24918 24565
archive 24565 24918 15876
thanks

> From: Klaus-Dieter Bauer <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:05:17 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
>  If you can build your own Emacs, please build the emacs-25 branch of
>  the Emacs Git repository, and see if setting the new variable
>  inhibit-compacting-font-caches to non-nil solves this.
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
> I (accidentially) built 26.0.50.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) instead of the emacs-25 branch.

Doesn't matter, the fix exists on both branches.

> Anyway, there it worked. Without `inhibit-compating-font-caches' it would show the same behaviour as before
> in `package-list-packages', setting the variable to t the problem vanished.

Thanks for testing.  This means Emacs 25.2 will have a solution for
this problem, and so I'm closing this report and merging it with
bug#24565 where this was solved.