Re: Spell checking too slow on Emacs.app

[Matt Lundin]

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> I wonder if anyone else has complaint regarding ispell.el on OSX. It is
> an order of magnitude slower than on GNU/Linux. For example, if you run
> ispell-buffer you will see it takes seconds to move from current word to
> the next misspelled word while in GNU/Linux it is also instant.
>
> If you have (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-flyspell), then
> report-emacs-bug will take about 10 seconds to enter the mail buffer.
>
> My feeling is the communication between emacs on OSX(and possibly
> windows) and external tools is extremely slow.
>
> Is there anyone seeing these problems? Any workaround?

I can confirm these problems. Unfortunately, I don't have a solution.
For the time being, I turn flyspell off when using Emacs.app on OSX.

Best,
Matt