GNU bug report logs - #3253
23.0.92; Subpixel rendering slows down significantly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Torsten Bronger <bronger <at> physik.rwth-aachen.de>

Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:25:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Torsten Bronger <bronger <at> physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: 3253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3253: 23.0.92; Subpixel rendering slows down significantly
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?
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 286 days ago.

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