xemacs performance unacceptable

[Horst von Brand]

Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> With most recent rawhide updates, performance of editing using xemacs is
> unacceptably slow, because with each character insert, X keeps flashing the
> "busy" pointer.

Not seen here...

What kind of files? Very large, perhaps; or a RAM-challenged machine?
Costly mode in use?
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