From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Font backend: Observations on speed on Windows
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:43:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <zlps1f3z.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3f230850806110231h19f23ea2off43ef2daf27cba4@mail.gmail.com> (dhruva's message of "Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:01:45 +0530")
dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com> writes:
>> How do I disable anti-aliasing? (This is Windows2K)
>
> Right-Mouse-Click on the desktop screen, go to
> "Properties"->"Appearance"->"Effects..." and disable the checkbox
> corresponding to "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen
> fonts" or select "Standard" (instead of "ClearType".
The option you mention is on XP. The most similar thing on W2K is
"Smooth edges of screen fonts". Its help text starts with:
"Specifies whether to smooth edges of large fonts to make screen fonts
more readable" ...
I'm not sure this has something to do with anti-aliasing, but turning it
off makes no appreciable change on font rendering speed.
> By doing so, I see a noticeable increase in speed. I am now going to
> profile emacs to see the difference.
--
Oscar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 9:43 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
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 [this message]
2008-06-11 10:49 ` dhruva
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=zlps1f3z.fsf@telefonica.net \
--to=ofv@wanadoo.es \
--cc=dhruvakm@gmail.com \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=jasonr@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).