GNU bug report logs - #35426
26.1; emacs slowness linked to one special character

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: DG MAD-eBook <dg <at> mad-ebook.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 14:24:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 26.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 35426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: DG MAD-eBook <dg <at> mad-ebook.com>
Cc: 35426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35426: 26.1; emacs slowness linked to one special character
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:48:16 +0300

> From: DG MAD-eBook <dg <at> mad-ebook.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:35:31 +0300
> ScriptPath: dg <at> mad-ebook.com
> 
> in any text file, when you paste this character : ∈ (0x2208)the emacs editor
> become very very very slow almost unusable

That generally depends on the font used to display it.  I have Symbola
installed, and I see no slowdown.

I think either installing Symbola or setting
inhibit-compacting-font-caches to a non-nil value should make the
problem go away.
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