bug#25654: 24.5; linum and hide-show

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:56:45 -0700
> Cc: Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali <hajiali@maths.ox.ac.uk>, 25654@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> To reproduce:
> >> Create a new file, enable c-mode, hs-minor-mode and
> >> linum-mode, create a huge block by typing: { C-u 10000 RET } then
> >> execute hs-hide-all and watch Emacs become unresponsive.
> >
> > You may wish to try the alternative nlinum-mode, it performs better in
> > this scenario.
> 
> So is there anything more to do here, or should we just accept these
> limitations in linum-mode?

I think this bug report is OBE, since we now have
display-line-numbers-mode, which doesn't use overlays.  So I'm closing
the bug; thanks for pointing out it is obsolete.