GNU bug report logs - #37652
26.3; performance drops massively when on some elisp manual pages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Chris Hecker <checker <at> d6.com>

Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 00:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.3

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: Chris Hecker <checker <at> d6.com>
Cc: 37652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37652: 26.3; performance drops massively when on some elisp manual pages
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:13:48 +0300

> From: "Chris Hecker" <checker <at> d6.com>
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:48:21 +0000
> 
> 1. start emacs -Q for 26.3
> 2. hit C-h i to get to the info directory
> 3. m elisp
> 4. m buffer contents
> 5. page around in the file for a few seconds, emacs starts crawling and
> using an entire cpu

Does it help to set inhibit-compacting-font-caches to a non-nil value?
If so, this problem is already solved in the development code.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 287 days ago.

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