On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:24:19PM -0800, da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, James Cameron wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:50:58PM -0800, da...@lang.hm wrote: >>> since the effect seems to be related to the amount of text on the screen >>> at any one time that needs to be scrolled, it may be that the larger >>> fonts of debxo 0.5 are preventing you from seeing the effect. >> >> Good point, but no, rxvt is being used with a bitmap font, and it is the >> same size on debxo 0.4 and 0.5, using a side by side comparison of two >> XOs. An 80x24 character cell window takes up the same physical space on >> the panel. xwininfo on both shows 979 x 580 pixels. > > but what was reported was that an 80x24 window didn't see much > difference, but a window showing more characters took significantly > longer.
Yes, that's expected ... when there is a shortage of CPU cycles, a larger window would cause more work, and would appear slower. -- James Cameron mailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel