bug#1952: 23.0.60[W32-Mingw]; opening etc/HELLO is slower than before

[Jason Rumney]

"slower than before" means what exactly? Can you pinpoint the change 
that caused the slowdown? Or are you comparing with Emacs 22.3?

If the latter, then at least part of the slowdown can be attributed to 
the fact that Emacs 23 is finding all the fonts it can to display the 
characters in etc/HELLO correctly, while Emacs 22.3 displays about half 
the languages as empty boxes, and another couple of languages as the 
font's "undefined" glyph.