From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Alexandrov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is font fallback slow over X11/ssh? Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 13:32:23 +0300 Message-ID: References: <5zc62183.dag@gnui.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="86388"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 12:35:59 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jh9he-000MRE-R6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2020 12:35:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33072 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jh9hd-0001Jk-GI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2020 06:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jh9eT-0001II-UU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2020 06:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from relay-2.mailobj.net ([213.182.54.5]:33026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jh9eQ-0008ME-Oo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2020 06:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from v-1c.localdomain (unknown [192.168.90.161]) by relay-2.mailobj.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7591712F3; Fri, 5 Jun 2020 12:32:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by mail-1.net-c.com [213.182.54.15] with ESMTP Fri, 5 Jun 2020 12:32:33 +0200 (CEST) X-EA-Auth: APksX6SDS8AKwj33vFFlxOGd61AGMkFiLhUErQlaH6VsEFHRqVsMjxuIrKr3ARmMz/f4FJJcRrL+sXjFJrC57YFgY52HjyuC In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:01:37 -0400") OpenPGP: id=525F7E60AD812C2361752BB4C8B0F8548EE7F3E7; url=https://openpgpkey.gnui.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/gnui.org/hu/hr4k5tkxm6shwdc18su4bkm34w3dctjd Mail-Copies-To: always Received-SPF: pass client-ip=213.182.54.5; envelope-from=dag@gnui.org; helo=relay-2.mailobj.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/06/05 06:32:35 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.1-3.10 X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_PASS=-0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123239 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Stefan Monnier 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 oth= er backends. And it=CA=BCs not unexpected in the light of hypothesis above= : typically, there are just much less fonts available via =E2=80=98x=E2=80= =99 than via =E2=80=98xft=E2=80=99 / =E2=80=98ftcrhb=E2=80=99. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iIMEARYIACsWIQRSX35grYEsI2F1K7TIsPhUjufz5wUCXtofNw0cZGFnQGdudWku b3JnAAoJEMiw+FSO5/PnPG4BAPOZZGmgdcump3lLmS4LmBEO/57/jneIfyxBxU2F GhUzAQDVhIUpYltjszytttn7BUkt3PtH7J2rneQ6zjlPn6M/CA== =Hs4v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--