Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>
>> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>>
>>> A few things to try ...
>>>
>>> 1. turn off tooltip mode
>>
>> Yes. Anything graphic.
>>
>>
>>> 2. Try running with -nw to turn off X and only have a terminal UI
>>> and see what the performance is like. this will let you know if
>>> the problem is basic emacs or the X protocol stuff
>>
>> This is not useful, if you only work with text.  The X protocol is
>> not significantly worse than any other terminal protocol to send
>> over text.
>
> Font rendering/antialiasing/composition nowadays happens mostly at
> the client side if I am not mistaken.  That makes the X protocol
> much worse even with text.

That's not what I observe.  It's possible for an application to deal
with characters itself and send bitmaps but normally, and it looks
like it's what emacs does, it sends only the strings and the font
rendering is done in the X server.

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