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Re: emacs is slow while processing a big file


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: emacs is slow while processing a big file
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:39:27 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Saravanan M D <Saravanan.MD@arm.com> wrote on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:55:39
> +0530:
>> I am using emacs-21.3. When i open a big file and navigate through it.
>> It is very slow even to get to the next page. If i open the same file
>> with gvim it is faster. what should i do to speed up this.
>
> Well, you could start by telling us a bit more about the file!  What
> "mode" was it loaded in, i.e. was it a text file, a C source file, or
> what?  How big was it?  Is there anything else noteworthy about the file?

I should not be surprised if he was using font-lock-mode.  There is a
reason we did not make it the default for Emacs-21.3.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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