From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: 69385@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69385: 30.0.50; Long lines with bidi text slow down Emacs
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:19:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86v86bux3w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zfvnfh4d.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:13:38 +0100)
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: 69385@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:13:38 +0100
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:33:18 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > The CPU is fast. My HarfBuzz version is much older, but I doubt that
> > HarfBuzz became so much slower for Arabic. So it's very strange. But
> > maybe it's worth to try downgrading to an earlier version, just to be
> > sure this is not the culprit?
>
> That's not so straightforward on this system, where I build system
> packages from source, so downgrading HarfBuzz may require also
> rebuilding packages that depend on it. I have a somewhat older system
> on this machine with HarfBuzz 7.1.0, so I can easily try that. What
> version of HarfBuzz are you using?
I have 2.4.0 here.
> > If, after starting Emacs, you set all the entries of Arabic characters
> > in composition-function-table to nil (e.g., using
> > set-char-table-range), do you see significant speedup?
>
> Yes, there is a noticeable speedup when M-> and C-v, M-v, and even
> holding down C-n and C-p is faster, though they still freeze after a few
> seconds, but the freeze doesn't last as long as when it happens with the
> shaped Arabic script. Also, probably unsurprisingly, the speed after
> disabling shaping is still much slower than keeping shaping enabled but
> setting bidi-display-reordering to nil.
Is this with text from HELLO, or with some other Arabic text? The
prominent effect of bidi-display-reordering is actually surprising,
and not what I see here, with or without shaping. Very strange.
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2024-02-25 16:23 bug#69385: 30.0.50; Long lines with bidi text slow down Emacs Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-25 18:03 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-25 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-25 20:36 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-26 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-26 14:13 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-26 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-26 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-26 15:17 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-26 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-26 15:59 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-26 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-26 17:12 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-26 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-26 21:47 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-27 8:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-27 10:13 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-03 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-04 13:28 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-04 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-07 11:12 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-07 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-21 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-21 15:08 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-26 15:17 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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