Re: Antialised fonts and drawing speed issue (emacs 23.0.60)

[Óscar Fuentes]

"E.L.K." <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I'm using emacs 23.0.60 on Linux with font "DejaVu Sans Mono".
>
> And I'm expiriencing slowness when redrawing buffer filled with
> any text (doesn't matter - with any font-lock or without).
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> On Windows, no such problem was seen by me.

On Windows, Emacs with the new font backend is so slow that is unusable
on low-end machines (read old machines or laptops on power-saving mode).

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> What else information can I provide or tests can i do, to collect
> more information to help trace this issue? I have rater big
> amount of free time now and will be happy to help make emacs
> better. (:

Profile and optimize the C code? That's what I plan to do at some point
on the future.

-- 
Oscar