Re: Breakpoint ignored.

[Stefan Monnier]

> I think it is not related to the specific case being discused, but your
> scenario looks quite extreme to me. Such abuse does not warrant
> increasing complexity with optimizations or safeguards for
> them. Guaranteeing that emacs (or firefox) behaves snappy after pressing
> a key for half an hour (why not a month?) enters the paranoid field of
> life-critical applications.

Agreed.  This said I think Emacs deals fairly poorly with such
situations and it is a problem in some real cases where people have to
handle files with really long lines.
We have an open bug-report about it.


        Stefan