Re: emacs takes exhorbitantly long to read long, one-line files.

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 20 May 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> But it won't succeed to make Emacs usable with such files.  E.g., try
> this:

>   M->
>   C-p

> and count the seconds it takes to perform the second command.

I've done this test for a file with one line of 16 MB, and I get the
following times for the first and second commands (emacs -Q -nw in
an 80x24 xterm):

  Emacs 23.4:   4 s /  9 s
  Emacs 24.3:  16 s / 34 s

Is this degradation of performance expected?

Ulrich