I tried creating a new (Creative) world in 1.8, in singleplayer.
I expected it to load fine, just like in 1.7.10.
Instead, the game gets stuck on "Downloading terrain" for a while, then loads chunks very slowly.
It seems setting chunk distance higher than 16 before loading the world puts the internal server in ultra-slow mode.
Screenshot : http://i.imgur.com/FHYUniy.png
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Duplicate of MC-63093