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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-emacsen-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
