bug#4772: 23.1.50; Screen updates very slow

Jan Djärv <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:31:23 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tim Van Holder skrev:
> Since yesterday morning's (CET) CVS build (couldn't do one today because
> cvs.savannah.gnu.org currently has no route), I've noticed that screen
> updates are MUCH slower than before. You can clearly see emacs
> repainting things one line at a time. This happens both when
> opening/scrolling files and when emacs needs to repaint part of a window
> because another window was covering it.
> It's not a showstopper as such, but it is having a marked impact on my
> efficiency :-).
> 
> On the plus side, this seems to be the first emacs build in a long time
> that actually starts up with the initial frame sized the way I
> configured it.

I just tried a fresh CVS checkout.  The updates in that is painfully slow still.

	Jan D.

> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
>  of 2009-10-20 on leeloo
> Windowing system distributor `RealVNC Ltd', version 11.0.3370
> configured using `configure  '--with-x''
> 
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
> 
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
> 
>