Re: Emacs awfully slow on some files

[Miles Bader]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>     cache-long-line-scans is a variable defined in `C source code'.
>     Its value is nil
...
> However, this variable has defaulted to nil for quite a long time.  I
> should be surprised if setting it non-nil would not tend to exhibit
> bugs.

I tried it last year sometime; emacs crashed quite quickly...

-Miles

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