Re: Display slowness that is painful

[Chong Yidong]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     I'm confused.  How does it make sense to display characters in \XXX
>     format instead?  Both methods produce gibberish (as one would expect
>     of a binary file).  So we might as well choose the gibberish that
>     redisplays faster.
>
> Making it 4 times as fast is not enough.  It will still be
> intolerable.  This ought to be hundreds of times as fast, and I am
> sure it can be, with a fairly small change--once someone sees what
> is taking the time.

Actually, displaying unibyte text according to the language
environment is faster than displaying it in octal format -- in the
case of the bmp file you provided, the delay is negligible.