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From: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is font fallback slow over X11/ssh?
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 13:32:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9k53irs.dag@gnui.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvo8pyv9c4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:01:37 -0400")

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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> Have you tried to *disable* the `x` fontBackend instead?
>> Yes, in fact due to bug#25216 this is my normal setup.
>> Why _it_ could help, I wonder now?
>
> The idea was that it would avoid paying the cost of the `x` backend.

So, it turns out than in practice this cost is much lower than costs of other backends.  And itʼs not unexpected in the light of hypothesis above: typically, there are just much less fonts available via ‘x’ than via ‘xft’ / ‘ftcrhb’.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-05 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-28 12:11 Is font fallback slow over X11/ssh? Yuri Khan
2020-05-31  8:16 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-05-31 13:13   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-04 17:24     ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-06-04 21:01       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-05 10:32         ` Dmitry Alexandrov [this message]
2020-06-05 15:22           ` Stefan Monnier

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