bug#24634: 25.1 on Windows (native and cygwin+w32): high CPU load with "wavy" characters

[Georges Ko]

Georges Ko <gko@gko.net> writes:

>> As I said elsewhere, patches to make the offending code opt-out under
>> control of a Lisp variable are welcome.  If you rebuild with the
>> compact_font_caches function (in alloc.c) disabled, i.e. make its body
>> empty, does the problem go away for you?
>
> I'll try and see what happens.

When compiled with compact_font_caches empty or not called, Emacs
crashes at launch...
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 Georges Ko                     gko@gko.net                      2016-10-08