Indeed. The top google hit for "emacs fontify proof block slow" I provided
says exactly that :)

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/46561/org-mode-9-too-slow-with-long-code-blocks
"""
That said, I think keeping 2000 lines of source code inside an org src
block is neither a standard use case nor a reasonable idea. You can use the
#+INCLUDE ... src ... directive or split the block into a number of more
reasonably sized cells. If you insist on keeping the entire block, then
disable native highlighting of src code blocks.
"""

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 2:23 PM John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> A quick and dirty way to fix this might be an include file, i.e. move
> the block out of your manuscript file into a separate org file, and then
> just include it.
>
> Léo Ackermann <leo.ko...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am working in an org-file of reasonable size (<2000 lines): my first
> > paper written in org-mode. Everything fine (and fast) until I started to
> > add `#+BEGIN_proof / #+END_proof` within my .org to make my .pdf export
> > prettier. This caused the editing of the proofs to be very slow:
> navigation
> > within the proof is fast but adding/removing any char takes around 4s per
> > char.
> > It seems that the fontify function is responsible for that (see
> > screenshot). As far as I understand, this function tries to fontify the
> > whole block as soon as a single char is modified. In my case, it then
> tries
> > to fontify a whole proof (~4 pages in my .pdf, with many LaTeX formulas)
> > several times per second...
> >
> > Is there a way to make this fontify function to act "around my cursor" ?
> >
> > Best,
> > Leo
>
>
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