Re: Slow frame creation when many faces defined

[Richard M. Stallman]

    In a realistic setting I've got around 400-600 faces listed in face- 
    new-frame-defaults, but they are obviously more complex than what is  
    created in the simplified example above.

It might be possible to optimize the code that handles faces
when creating a frame.  That code is very complex, has many levels
that were written at different times, and very likely is doing a lot
of things the hard way.  Rewriting it from scratch, after making a new
design that is clear, could probably make it much faster.

That would be a useful thing to do, but now is not the time to install
it.  I will add it to etc/TODO.