GNU bug report logs - #28795
25.2; UTF-8 language environment causes extreme sluggishness

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mark Laws <mdl <at> 60hz.org>

Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.2

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mark Laws <mdl <at> 60hz.org>
Cc: 28795 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28795: 25.2;
 UTF-8 language environment causes extreme sluggishness
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:31:22 +0300
> From: Mark Laws <mdl <at> 60hz.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:15:53 +0900
> 
> M-x set-language-environment UTF-8

On Windows, doing this is a mistake (but not because it causes
sluggish redisplay).

> M-: (insert #x2207)
> 
> Then hold down C-o until you have a bunch of empty lines, and start moving
> around the buffer with the usual movement keys.  You will notice it is very,
> very slow.  Then delete the character from the buffer, and notice how things are
> fast again.

I cannot reproduce this here.  What font is used to display that
character?  You can find this out with "C-u C-x =" with the cursor on
the character.

On my system, I have the Symbola font installed, which is used for
displaying this character, and the problem doesn't happen.

As another thing to try, set inhibit-compacting-font-caches to a
non-nil value, and see if that helps.




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