Re: Emacs defeats ClearType

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com> writes:

> On 6/7/05, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>> Yes, if you're concerned about redrawing the minimum possible number
>> of characters on a line, you don't want to do that.  I think that's a
>> needless optimization in most cases, but I'm sure there are machines
>> and buffers where you can observe a difference in speed.
>
> Font metric  bogosities that cause greatly excessive redraw can
> definitely result in annoying flickering though, even on machines
> which are fast enough that you don't notice the actual redrawing.

In that case I think the patch I posted is probably the best we can
do.

> [This is the case on X11 anyway; unless the ms-windows port is doing
> double-buffering, I expect the same is true there.]

I haven't noticed it there. FWIW.

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Dave Abrahams
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