From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 23, sluggish performance
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:52:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvskzi1hhr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fprvoa$6sf$1@ger.gmane.org> (Eric Lilja's message of "Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:42:19 +0100")
> 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.
Whatever happened to providing information such as Windows/Mac/X11?
My crystal ball tells me you're running under Windows with the new font
backend enabled.
Please keep compiling *with* the new font backend, and if you want the
good old speed just run emacs with --disable-font-backend (yes, it can
be chosen at runtime).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-24 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-24 14:42 Emacs 23, sluggish performance Eric Lilja
2008-02-24 15:02 ` Eric Lilja
2008-02-24 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-24 16:06 ` Eric Lilja
2008-02-24 16:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-02-24 16:51 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-24 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-24 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-24 22:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
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