Re: Emacs Slowdown

[Phillip Lord]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> When Emacs feels slow, what happens if you keep typing without waiting
>>> for Emacs's response?
>> It catches up eventually.
>
> Hmm... so providing input doesn't actually "wake it up": sometimes,
> I introduced bugs which caused Emacs to redisplay just before the next
> command rather than right after a command, which made it look like
> Emacs was terribly slow, even tho it was just that the screen update
> was happening at the wrong time.
> But It looks like your situation is not one of those.

I think not. I'm trying out with older versions of Emacs to see whether
the problem is recent.

Phil