bug#8890: 23.3; message writing slows emacs

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> It would be good, IMO, to delay updating the visible message in the
> minibuffer line long enough to be sure that the message just written
> isn't about to be overwritten so fast that the user couldn't read it
> anyway.

Over-enthusiastic messaging isn't pretty, but slowing down Emacs just to
display normal "informative" messages would be really bad, in my
opinion.

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