bug#32728: bug#32729: Xemacs 23 times as fast as GNU Emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> >> (Note: Don't visit the " *zeroes*" buffer after this, because that will
>> >> hang Emacs totally.  I guess the long-line display problem hasn't been
>> >> fixed after all?)
>> >
>> > It's unrelated.  Did you try to insert that into a unibyte buffer
>> > instead?
>> 
>> Nope.  Does Emacs need to do a lot of recomputing when going to
>> multibyte buffers?
>
> Of course: we try to display the multibyte text as characters, search
> for fonts, invoke bidi reordering, etc.

I tried:

(benchmark-run
    1
  (call-process "dd" nil (with-current-buffer
                             (get-buffer-create " *zeroes*")
                           (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
                           (current-buffer))
                nil "if=/dev/zero" "bs=4096" "count=250000"))

and then jumped to the buffer, and Emacs hung anyway.  (That is, I
killed Emacs after a minute, so I don't know whether it would have
recovered after a while...)

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