Re: Emacs `hangs' when doing `replace-string' in 46 MB file

[Christian Schlauer]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 11 2004, Christian Schlauer wrote:

[...]

>> Maybe someone can reproduce this under GNU/Linux? It takes less than 5
>> minutes to yank the above line 800000 times on a PIII/800 MHz ;-)
>
> It takes only a few seconds...

[ lisp-code ]

Okay ;-) -- I tried it with `C-u 800000 C-x z' after yanking the line,
but that didn't work.

> The replace-string finished after consuming only two minute of CPU
> time on GNU/Linux (on an AMD with 1000 MHz).  It needs about 50 MB of
> memory.

Oh! So it's not a simple lisp problem then, I guess? I mean, lisp and
byte-compiled lisp should perform in the same way on all platforms (in
theory)?

I don't know what I can do to find the problem. Besides from not
having the tools that I would need installed, I've only debugged
Fortran code...

-- 
Christian Schlauer