Re: 23.0.50; MacOS X 10.4: very slow visuals, multi-tty patch suspected

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

  > Started Emacs without any init functionality to confirm this
  > performance issue.
  > 
  > Visual operations (e.g. line down/up) are much, much slower than in
  > my last CVS build from 2 weeks ago.  There is a perceptible lag every
  > time I press up/down arrow for example.  I didn't see a way to compile
  > without multi-tty at the configure level to confirm the multi-tty
  > patch is the problem, but I suspect it.  It may be related that
  > (start-server) doesn't start the Emacs server.
  > 
  > Nonvisual operations, e.g. Gnus loading, are as fast as they were
  > before based on observation but no hard numbers.

This is a known problem (it has been reported before), unfortunately
nobody seems to care enough about that platform to try to fix it and
there is no active maintainer for it.