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Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely? |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:29:23 -0000 |
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pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>>
>>> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>>>
>>>> A few things to try ...
>>>>
>>>> 1. turn off tooltip mode
>>>
>>> Yes. Anything graphic.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2. Try running with -nw to turn off X and only have a terminal UI
>>>> and see what the performance is like. this will let you know if
>>>> the problem is basic emacs or the X protocol stuff
>>>
>>> This is not useful, if you only work with text. The X protocol is
>>> not significantly worse than any other terminal protocol to send
>>> over text.
>>
>> Font rendering/antialiasing/composition nowadays happens mostly at
>> the client side if I am not mistaken. That makes the X protocol
>> much worse even with text.
>
> That's not what I observe. It's possible for an application to deal
> with characters itself and send bitmaps but normally, and it looks
> like it's what emacs does, it sends only the strings and the font
> rendering is done in the X server.
For bitmap fonts. I don't think the X protocol channels antialiased
fonts yet. Usually xfs (the font server) runs on the client side of the
connection.
--
David Kastrup
- Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Russ P., 2010/12/09
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, despen, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Russ P., 2010/12/09
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, despen, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Tim X, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/12/08
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- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Tim X, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, despen, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Andrea Venturoli, 2010/12/09
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, Giacomo Boffi, 2010/12/08
- Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?, despen, 2010/12/08