Re: [h-e-w] ediff speed, 21.1 vs 20

[Dan Schmidt]

Bill Pringlemeir <address@hidden> writes:

|  Stephen> I've been usingn Gnu Emacs 21.1 for a few months now, and I
|  Stephen> like it.  However, it has one drawback compared to Emacs 20;
|  Stephen> ediff has slowed down tremendously, for diff sections that
|  Stephen> are multiple lines.
| 
| I have experienced the same thing. 
| 
|  "GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381) of 2002-03-19 on BILL"
| 
| After looking at all the differences, the thing that comes to mind is
| the overlays.  I think that the display updating has changed
| considerably.  Perhaps overlays and font-lock stuff were calculated
| before displaying the buffer previously.  When you whip through the
| diffs, hitting `n' for next, there are times when it pauses for a long
| time.  This was not the previous behviour... and this is the thing I
| notice.

I hate to be all 'me too', but this describes my experience as well.

  "GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2002-03-19 on buffy"

Dan

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