From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font backend: Observations on speed on Windows
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:42:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <484F8FEF.6020207@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tzg4t18m.fsf@telefonica.net>
Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Today I fired a fresh CVS Emacs and, with great surprise, noticed that
> the screen is painted with acceptable speed on my old 550 MHz
> machine. The second odd thing is that the font used was not the one I
> expected. Emacs was using
>
> -raster-MS Sans Serif-normal-normal-normal-sans-16-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
>
> so I changed the default font to
>
> -outline-Courier New-normal-normal-normal-mono-16-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
>
> and the slowness manifested again. It is my impression that it is not so
> bad as some weeks ago, though.
>
Does the display become similarly fast when anti-aliasing is disabled,
even with the Courier New font?
How is it with other truetype fonts, particularly sans serif ones, which
are less likely to overspill the character cell boundaries when antialiased?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-08 15:06 Font backend: Observations on speed on Windows Óscar Fuentes
2008-06-11 8:42 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-06-11 9:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-06-11 9:31 ` dhruva
2008-06-11 9:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-11 9:43 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-06-11 10:49 ` dhruva
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