Subject: Re: bug#4835: 23.1; Improper `Invalid face reference' messages. Performance degraded.

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:20:02 +0200

"Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:

> The only problem is the zillions of messages that are logged to *Messages*
> endlessly. That degrades performance so much that it brings Emacs to a crawl.
> This is the case for both Emacs 22 and 23. It seems that each redisplay causes
> this sequence of four messages to be logged many times, over and over:
>
>  Invalid face reference: prepend
>  Invalid face reference: 0
>  Invalid face reference: column-marker-move-to-22
>  Invalid face reference: t

I seem to recall some work being done to make redisplay somewhat less
chatty.  Are you still seeing this problem?

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