Re: turning on global-font-lock-mode by default?

[Richard Stallman]

      >     Is there any reason not to turn on global-font-lock-mode by 
default? 
      > 
      > I will give it a try for a while and see what I think.

    Could you please share your conclusions? 

Initially I found some featurelets I did not like, so I changed them.
Now I like the feature.  However, it has caused Emacs to run out of
memory and crash.  I made a change recently that might fix this,
but it will take time before I see if things have got better.