Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3

[Richard Stallman]

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    > 23.4       5.436    1.019
    > 24.5      25.482    1.636
    > 25.3      22.370    1.610
    > 26.3      16.533    1.911
    > 27.0.90   17.602    2.339

  > First column is the version, second and third column are the times with
  > font-lock-mode enabled and disabled, respectively.

What this says is that even with font lock disabled, there has been a
lot of slowdown.  About half of the slowdown was in version 24, and
most of the rest was after version 26.

If someone can figure out why, we may be able to speed it up again.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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