Re: 23.0.60; describe-char gives wrong information

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.01.2008 um 09:18 schrieb Kenichi Handa:

> Did that slowness happen only after my recent change?


I installed an update from CVS on the weekend. I tried to improve  
compilation and configuration. Then I stopped times.

Launching with '-Q --disable-font-backend' it takes 25 sec to become  
ready, 10 sec to perform C-h H, and 2 sec to scroll forward.

Launching without '--disable-font-backend' it takes 25 sec to become  
ready, then it takes almost 2 min until text from C-h H appears, and  
then it takes another 7 min until the hollow cursor is filled and GNU  
Emacs accepts input. Scroll-forward takes over 2 min. Quitting, C-x  
c, takes almost 4 min ...

With ``-J:%%-   HELLO   ´´ starts mode-line when launched without '-- 
disable-font-backend.' With this option mode-line starts with: ``-J:% 
*-   HELLO   ´´ and when quitting GNU Emacs asks whether saving HELLO.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, GTK+ Version 2.6.10)
 of 2008-01-27 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version  
11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--enable-font-backend' '--with-x- 
toolkit=gtk' '--with-dbus' '--without-pop' '--without-sound' '-- 
enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar22:/ 
Library/Application Support/Emacs/caml:/Library/Application Support/ 
Emacs:/sw/share/emacs21/site-lisp/elib' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/ 
freetype219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig' 'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp - 
D__BIND_NOSTATIC -I/usr/include/openssl -I/sw/include/pango-1.0 -I/sw/ 
lib/fontconfig2/include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include -I/sw/lib/ 
freetype219/include/freetype2 -I/sw/include -I/usr/local/include - 
idirafter /usr/X11R6/include' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb -gfull -Wno-pointer-sign - 
bind_at_load -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -fast' 'LDFLAGS=- 
dead_strip -multiply_defined suppress -L/sw/lib/ncurses -L/sw/lib/ 
fontconfig2/lib -L/sw/lib/freetype219/lib -L/sw/lib -L/usr/local/lib - 
L/usr/X11R6/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t


(C debugging is enabled because both, GNU Emacs 23.0.60 and 23.0.50,  
show crashes when I insert with the mouse text I copied before with  
the mouse. Could be it happens only in situations when Mac OS X uses  
more than 2 GB of allocated swap space on disk, on a different volume/ 
slice/partition.)

--
Greetings

  Pete

There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If  
it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong.