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>>>>> "John" == John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov> writes:

> Sudish Joseph writes:

Sudish> In particular, the redisplay bug (where XEmacs hangs at the oddest
Sudish> places until you provide any form of input) is particularly annoying
Sudish> and is not the type of thing that should be left hanging in the final
Sudish> 19.x release.  It bites me literally dozens of times a day...I've
Sudish> gotten into the habit of hitting C-l all the time.

John> That's funny.  I've gotten so used to that one that I'd forgotten
John> about it completely.  I also hit C-l constantly.

If it's any consolation to you, I've finally been able to duplicate
the problem on my equipment.  I've been hit with it in the Scrolling
Large File benchmark.

 ...

John> Here's my totally subjective scale (posted some time ago to c.e.x.)
John> for 19.14 on various platforms:

John> SPARC IPX, 64MB			painful, almost unusable
John> SPARC 10/30, 64MB		slow, jerky
John> SPARC 20/50, 96MB		sluggish but usable
John> SPARC 20/61, 96MB		a little better
John> IBM SP2, 512MB			OK, still a *little* jerky
John> UltraSPARC 170E, 128MB		snappy, smooth
John> SGI, 200MHz R10k, 512MB		wow!
John> DEC, 300MHz Alpha, 4GB		wow!

John> I do use both lazy-lock and func-manu, which some have pointed to as
John> possible reasons for my need for fair hunks of iron to use as Emacs
John> engines.

Yup.  Before I switched machines, I used a 66MHz Cyrix486 with 32MB of
RAM and it worked just fine.  But I use fast-lock not lazy-lock, and
only have func-menu enabled by keystroke.  I also avoid having more
than 1 frame displayed of large numbers of mousable extents (like
dired, Gnus *Topics*/*Summary*, *Compilation*, etc.).

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