Emacs 23, sluggish performance

[Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>]

Hello, I'm using a checkout from the trunk built yesterday on my WinXP 
with the new font backend enabled. Emacs feels very sluggish even with 
just my .emacs settings file opened which is not a big file. Scrolling 
in the file is slow, selecting is slow. Maybe not the same response I'm 
used to when typing either. I normally select and scroll with the mouse, 
which I know is probably under-using emacs but it wasn't slow before. 
When I look at the task manager I see emacs is consuming practically no 
cpu time and memory usage is modest (around 25 MB). Also, the binaries 
are built with debugging information.
I'm wondering what I can do to speed things up, maybe rebuild without 
debugging information and not enabling the new font backend but it 
shouldn't be necessary I feel.

Comments and suggestions welcome.

- Eric