Re: Display slowness that is painful

[Richard M. Stallman]

    I'm confused.  How does it make sense to display characters in \XXX
    format instead?  Both methods produce gibberish (as one would expect
    of a binary file).  So we might as well choose the gibberish that
    redisplays faster.

Making it 4 times as fast is not enough.  It will still be
intolerable.  This ought to be hundreds of times as fast, and I am
sure it can be, with a fairly small change--once someone sees what
is taking the time.

This is a bug.  Please help fix it.