On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Just tested the font-backend build on windows, and there are 2 obvious
> problems I have noticed. 1) the rendering speed is painfully slow, even on my
> core2 cpu.

Question:
What if you start Emacs with --disable-font-backend?
This should give you back the performance and behavior you had before.

It's not a long-term solution, but the first thing I'd like to do is to
get rid of the ENABLE_FONT_BACKEND compile-time choice.


       Stefan