GNU bug report logs - #851
Takes several minutes to load 512k C header

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: michael.meeks <at> novell.com

Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:25:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 851 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: michael.meeks <at> novell.com, 851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#851: Takes several minutes to load 512k C header
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:30:03 +0200

> 	I try to load the attached file (when un-compressed). It's 512k of
> text, but I have a fast multi-GHz machine with GBs of spare RAM etc. and
> I can load 20+Mb .txt files in emacs just fine normally.
>
> 	Loading this generates several minutes of non-responsiveness.
>
> 	HTH,
>
> 		Michael.
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
>  of 2008-06-07 on nepomuk

It loads in a couple of seconds here.  Alan has tried to fix the
handling of header files as discussed in this thread

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01613.html

on 2008-03-07.  Can you check whether that fix made it into your Emacs?

martin
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