Re: slow make-frame + face initialization / importing x resources

[Richard Stallman]

    What if X resources changed between creation of the first and second frame?

I think Emacs keeps its own list of X resources internally.
(I am not certain -- I never studied the code in xrdb.c carefully.)
So Emacs ought to be able to tell when to consider new values.

With the sort of redesign that Stefan proposed, it is surely possible
to DTRT for any relevant factors there may be.  It was only the amount
of work involved in this that made me hesitate.