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>Case in point, indenting a 2000+ line source file takes an eternity to complete, macros take even longer. Guess what, the entire editor is bottlenecked by language modes. Just switching to fundamental or text-mode and then applying a macro, gives you a 50x speed up.
nta but I've also experienced that, I think it's because stuff like buffer text properties and highlighting are applied with regexes