I visited Simon yesterday with my laptop to show him the problem; it was
very dependent on terminal size so he hadn't run into it as dramatically
as we had (I frequently use fully-maximised terminals, as was also the
case in your reproduction scenario, whereas he tends not to). After I
left he
Package: putty
Version: 0.64-1
Severity: normal
Truetype font rendering is very CPU intensive. This was equally the
case with 0.63, so is not a regression in the latest version, but I
only today got around to testing properly. When my window is maximized
on a 1280x1024 display with
Package: putty
Version: 0.64-1
Followup-For: Bug #792258
I underreported actual CPU usage. Here are the exact steps to test,
and comparisons between putty with Truetype, putty without Truetype
(fixed), and urxvt with Truetype. I also switched Truetype fonts to
match what I'm using with urxvt.
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 08:08:36AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
Truetype font rendering is very CPU intensive.
I've noticed the same thing myself, but haven't had a chance to
investigate it. Simon suggested that a useful next step would be to
compare xtrace output between pterm and some other
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