Skickat från min Samsung Galaxy-smartphone. > > 2. the display engine prepares the glyph matrix > 3. convert the glyph matrix to bitmap and display it > > I think lots of work are in 2. > > Actually, 3 is also a lot of work. > > Then 3 can be done in a separate thread from 2 and 1? > How would that help? Until 3 is done, the user doesn't see the Couldn't prepare and converting to bitmap, inclusive rendering the bitmap bo done in a separate thread from displaying the same? Of course, displaying can not be done until previous work has finished, so I don't know if Emacs could interleave the work with something else useful?