bug#17392: 24.3.90; cursor blinks faster and faster

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> I said I have seen the problem with
>> the number of timers building up for blinking cursors, but it was some
>> years ago.
>
> That cannot be the same problem we see now, because the code that
> produces a blinking cursor, and in particular its timer functions, was
> thoroughly rewritten during the last year.  The idle timer that seems
> to be the source of the problem now did not exist back then.
>
> So you are talking about a totally unrelated issue.

Yes, if it is a logical problem.
No, if it is a race problem.