From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Set inhibit-compacting-font-caches non-nil on MS-Windows
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 18:54:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ef225e3f.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3032a588-5ac6-4b56-abb0-bc01a7ecd0b7@default
On Sat 03 Aug 2019, Drew Adams wrote:
>> I think we should make this variable non-nil by default on
>> MS-Windows.
>>
>> There are quite a few bug reports in the bug DB which all complain
>> about slow redisplay on MS-Windows, and were resolved by setting this
>> variable non-nil. So it sounds like on MS-Windows the compacting of
>> the font caches is not a good idea (the original code was written to
>> fix a problem observed on X).
>
> +1. Bugs #30539 and #32159, for instance.
I don't see this problem in my usual setup on Windows, probably because
I have configured the fonts used in `fontset-default', resulting in
shorter searches for suitable fonts.
As Eli pointed out in a previous discussion, configuring the default
fontset to contain the right fonts for multiple versions of Windows is a
fair amount of work, and would require ongoing maintenance.
Given that, setting inhibit-compacting-font-caches non-nil on Windows
seems a pragmatic workaround.
AndyM
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2019-08-03 15:06 ` Set inhibit-compacting-font-caches non-nil on MS-Windows Drew Adams
2019-08-03 17:54 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2019-08-03 12:20 Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-07 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-13 12:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-13 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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