Subject: 23.0.92; Subpixel rendering slows down significantly

From: Torsten Bronger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:16:37 +0200 (CEST)

When activating subpixel rendering under Gnome (Ubuntu 9.04), Emacs is slowed down significantly.  Scrolling through a large text file take 1.7 times longer than with "ordinary" anti-aliasing alone.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.92.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
 of 2009-04-30 on wilson
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10600000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr/local/' '--mandir=/usr/local/share/man/' '--infodir=/usr/local/share/info/' '--with-x-toolkit=no' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--with-x''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Summary

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t