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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: 20.1-b5: Setting fonts? 
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Raymond Toy writes:
 > >>>>> "Jens" == Jens Lautenbacher <jens@lemcbed.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:
 > 
 >     >> The new customize faces is pretty cool, but it is incredibly
 >     >> slow. On my Hyper sparc, it takes a minute or two to get the
 >     >> list of fonts.  Then clicking on any entry takes tens of
 >     >> seconds for the attributes to show.  Don't people find this
 >     >> annoyingly slow?  I would hate to use this on a 486/66!
 > 
 >     Jens> You're right. It is annoyingly slow. but it *works*, at
 >     Jens> least better (which means: more correct) than edit-faces.
 > 
 > I beg to differ.  If it's so slow as to be unusable, it is NOT
 > better.  I don't want to wait minutes to customize something.
 > edit-faces was fast enough and did a good enough job most of the time
 > for me (YMMV).

My mileage does indeed vary.  I'm still using my old 486/50 and
once Custom loads, I don't see anything like this kind of
slowness.  I don't use lazy-lock, the usual scapegoat, so maybe
that's it?

