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`sit-for' in Flyspell slows typing down, hogs 90% of CPU

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From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 26525 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26525: `sit-for' in Flyspell slows typing down, hogs 90% of CPU
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:36:45 -0400

On 2017-04-17 10:25, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Thanks! I don't expect that this feature is intended to slow down typing, though, right?  In the example I posted it makes typing painfully slow.
> I didn't see any example in your OP, only a profile.  What did I miss?
> 
> And no, this is not supposed to slow down typing in any significant
> way, as long as you type, because sit-for is supposed to return as
> soon as input is available.  Your complaint was about CPU usage, not
> about time delays, AFAIU.

Indeed, there was only a profile; I don't have a good repro yet.  In that case, flyspell was slowing things down a lot, and the complaint was indeed about delays.
Sorry for being unclear.

Clément.

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