I have the same issue with stock gvim 7.4 in Ubuntu 16.04(Xenial) running on VMWare 12.5.0 player with Windows 10 host.
Paging up/down (ctrl-b,ctrl-f) is very slow. Almost a 100x slow down. dkwho@mumble:~$ time vim -u NONE -U NONE -S test-redraw-speed.vim /etc/init.d/README real 0m2.706s user 0m0.624s sys 0m1.196s dkwho@mumble:~$ time gvim -u NONE -U NONE -f -S test-redraw-speed.vim /etc/init.d/README real 23m4.198s user 0m32.328s sys 0m5.904s -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320700 Title: gvim rendering is slow To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/320700/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
