RE: Q on performance with 10000 faces

[Drew Adams]

            > > It's because even cursor motion, that usually takes a 
            > > fast shortcut through the redisplay code, requires to
            > > search all the text properties in your situation.
            > 
            > I don't see why that'd be the case.
    
            Granted, I could only guess, since no actual code was
            posted, but the description of the symptoms is quite
            revealing.

          > Any chance someone will look at this problem (considered
          > as a bug) before the release?
    
          Not without you posting some minimal code that creates this
          slowdown.
 
        If you are interested, please post the shortest Lisp code
        that can be used to reproduce and investigate this situation.

    In hopes that someone might be able to see why the palette code 
    slows things down (or suggest improvements to it), here is the
    basic code: <snip>

Any news on this?