On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:06 AM, François Ingelrest wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 23:15, Matt Wozniski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It might be good to know, but it's certainly not relevant to whatever
>> problem these people are seeing...  My WAG is that they're seeing a
>> font rendering regression (Pango? Freetype?), since I can reproduce
>> this problem in Debian Unstable with GTK2-GNOME gvim (105 seconds for
>> Dominique's benchmark) but not with the X11-Motif gvim (14 seconds for
>> Dominique's benchmark) or xterm/screen (13 seconds).
>
> I tried to compile GVim with Motif (benchmark: 3.7 secs) and with GTK
> (benchmark: 8.2 secs), so that indeed looks like an issue with GTK2
> and the way it renders the fonts (since GTK is way faster with the
> same font). I also tried using the "fixed" font with GTK2, but I get
> the same result as with courier new.
>
> I tried GEdit and did not see any rendering slowness during a normal
> usage, editing the same file as with GVim (syntax highlighting enabled
> in both cases of course). I know they don't work in the same way, and
> that a problem with Pango may be noticeable with GVim and not with
> another editor, but could the problem specifically come from the way
> GVim uses GTK2 to render text (instead of coming from Pango)?

Seems unlikely to me, since I see the same slowdown in xterm when
using a Freetype font as I see in GTK2 gvim...  vim has no control
over the rendering there, yet I see a significant performance hit.

~Matt

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