Re: 15 seconds to fontify index

[Kevin Ryde]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Perhaps we need to reduce the amount of fontification that is done
> on such a large node.  But we have to do SOMETHING.

I noticed `i' Info-index seems to visit the index node before reading
the user's search string.  I wonder if that could be done in the
completion handler instead (which is Info-complete-menu-item, shared
by Info-menu).  Doesn't make it go any faster of course, but gets to
the prompt quicker.


(Oh, and for slowness data points, only about 4 seconds on my 333mhz
k62 -- which sounds far too quick compared to Miles' 450mhz p3.  Dunno
what I've turned off, it's supposed to be from -Q with clean build.)