Re: Slow frame creation when many faces defined

[Kim F. Storm]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     In a realistic setting I've got around 400-600 faces listed in face- 
>     new-frame-defaults, but they are obviously more complex than what is  
>     created in the simplified example above.
>
> It might be possible to optimize the code that handles faces
> when creating a frame.  That code is very complex, has many levels
> that were written at different times, and very likely is doing a lot
> of things the hard way.  Rewriting it from scratch, after making a new
> design that is clear, could probably make it much faster.
>
> That would be a useful thing to do, but now is not the time to install
> it.  I will add it to etc/TODO.

It would be interesting if someone would do some profiling of the
relevant code to see if there is a specific loop that accounts for
most of the time spent here.  It could be something which was easy
to optimize once we know what it is.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk