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Derrell Lipman writes:
>>>>>> "  William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
>
>  William>   Could there be something architecture-specific that would
>  William> account for this incredible slowdown?  Anyone else see
>  William> ridiculous timings like this?
>
>On a PPRO 200 running FreeBSD, times were as follows:
>
>    Parse	  5 seconds
>    Draw	7.5 minutes
>
>For comparison, Internet Explorer under Windows '95 took 38 seconds to
>render this page.

  is your xemacs compiled with error-checking?  If so, this would be like
running Internet Explorer under debug-windows.

-Bill P.

