From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Sirotkin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: scroll speed - emacs vs. xterm vs. rxvt Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 00:40:36 +0200 Organization: TI Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: demiurg@ti.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046818923 15054 80.91.224.249 (4 Mar 2003 23:02:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 00:02:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qL8b-0002JE-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 23:43:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qL5t-0005GJ-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:41:05 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp1.hal-pc.org!attdl1!ip.att.net!news.ti.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.143.17 Original-X-Trace: tilde.itg.ti.com 1046817572 11695 192.168.143.17 (4 Mar 2003 22:39:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.ti.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Mar 2003 22:39:32 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021227 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.os.linux.x:198644 gnu.emacs.help:110825 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7326 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7326 Alexander Sirotkin wrote: > I've noticed that compilation time greatly depends > on a terminal you run it in, at least for one particular > project which prints lots of information during build > process. When I redirect it to a file it speeds the > compilation time by 30% and when it's run in a terminal > (konsole or gnome-terminal) top shows that X+terminal > consumes about 20% CPU load. > > I decided to compare different terminals in terms of > scroll speed, and here is what I found : > > rxvt : 1 > xterm : 2.4 > konsole : 6 > gnome-terminal : 11 > emacs : 42 > > Meaning that for instance rxvt is 42 times faster than emacs. > > Well... actually I don't know what to add, these results look > pretty bad to me. It means that I will never compile in emacs > window and should abandon all terminals except for rxvt. > Out of curiosity I checked xemacs and... wow, it was unbelievably fast. Even faster than rxvt... I guess I will switch back to xemacs, I considered it since I saw the buffers tab :)