Re: [AC] Speed up XEmacs on X

Uwe Brauer <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:19:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <[email protected]> writes:

   > Thanks for tracking this down.  I hadn't noticed it on Linux, and Mac
   > has been slower than Linux for a long time -- but with very long
   > lines in a LaTeX buffer, it's been excruciatingly slow.  This patch
   > not only makes XEmacs quite snappy, it also seems to improve
   > font-lock accuracy for reasons I don't understand.  (But I haven't
   > done any actual editing yet, just checked that scrolling speed and
   > search highlighting speed have improved by nearly 2 orders of
   > magnitude in that buffer!)

That rather interests me. Can this patch be already tested, or is it in
some pre-release directory waiting for approval?