Subject: bug#3253: 23.0.92; Subpixel rendering slows down significantly

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:04:52 -0400

Torsten Bronger wrote:

> 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

Is this still an issue with the latest version of Emacs?
Can anything actually be done about this?