Re: Split `simple.el'?

[Jefferson Carpenter]

On 4/5/2018 6:17 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Jefferson Carpenter <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 22:45:14 +0000
> >
> > On 4/4/2018 10:13 PM, John Wiegley wrote> On a similar note, I've been
> > meaning to rebind C-h h, because every time I
> > > mistakenly hit it, Emacs completely locks up for about 30 seconds as it
> > > fetches all those various Unicode characters to display. How long does that
> > > take for you?
> >
> > When I hit C-h h inside Emacs on Windows 8, it hangs up for 30 seconds.
>
> Windows 8 added several fonts that are very large and cause slowdown
> of the Emacs redisplay.  You can discover those fonts by moving the
> cursor around in the buffer and watching for slowdown; then installing
> alternative fonts for the same scripts will make the time much
> shorter.  Start by installing Symbola, if you haven't already, as the
> default Emacs fontset tells to use it for some Unicode blocks.

Interesting, I'll look into that later if I have time.

> > When I hit C-h h inside Putty, running Emacs on Linux over SSH, it takes
> > less than a second.
>
> When you do that, the fonts are served by your local X server, which
> runs on Windows, right?  Then I'm guessing that the X server already
> has the fonts loaded since the last session of Emacs or other
> programs, so the comparison is "unfair".
>
> It takes 5 to 6 seconds on my Windows system to display etc/HELLO,
> when I start with "emacs -Q", FWIW.

No X server at all - just running in terminal mode over SSH.