Re: emacs23 uploaded to unstable
On 2009-08-02 10:38 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Sven Joachim:
>>
>> I haven't tried emacs23 yet, but on recent emacs-snapshot packages I did
>> not experience much of a slowdown compared to emacs22. There is often a
>> delay when Emacs has to display characters that cannot be represented
>> with the current fontset; in this case it takes time to find a a
>> suitable font. However, subsequent scrolling should be fast.
>
> Perhaps it's also somewhat related to the X server. Most of the CPU
> usage during scrolling is in the X server. CPU load with Emacs 22 is
> very low, though.
>
> On my system, the redisplay activity is almost noticeable. There is a
> slight effect, as if it were painted top-down (similar to those slide
> effects in presentations).
This must be a problem of the video driver. Scrolling through the HELLO
file coming with Emacs, I see the CPU load of Emacs going up (and there
is indeed some redisplay lag), but Xorg's CPU usage stays close to 0.
Sven
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