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I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Incomplete' as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue while using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s) otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to vim in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320700 Title: gvim rendering is slow Status in vim package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: vim Rendering in gvim is very slow compared to previous Ubuntu releases. It's usable, but takes patience. I'm using vim/gvim 7.1.314-3ubuntu3.1 on Ubuntu 8.10. Others have reported this same issue on a thread from the vim mailing list. Many solutions have been tried w/o success: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/dd1d8d9a799adf4a From the thread, someone provided this benchmark script: -- -- -- " Benchmark vim's redrawing speed let i = 0 while i < 2000 1 redraw $ redraw let i = i + 1 endwhile qa! -- -- -- I've run it with /etc/init.d/README as an input file (just to pick something consistent across Ubuntu machines): $ time vim -u NONE -U NONE -S test-redraw-speed.vim /etc/init.d/README real 0m5.407s user 0m0.568s sys 0m0.048s $ time gvim -u NONE -U NONE -f -S test-redraw-speed.vim /etc/init.d/README real 3m27.614s user 0m11.685s sys 0m0.312s As you can see gvim is almost 40x slower then vim (running in gnome- terminal). You'd expect gvim to be slower then vim, but not by this much. Note, from the thread, not all users experience this huge difference. Some only report 2-3x slowdown, which I'd be very happy with at this point :) I'm using the radeon X11 driver (open source) on a ThinkPad T42p, and do _not_ experience slow rendering in other apps (for example, gedit). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/320700/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp