GNU bug report logs - #73442
29.2.50; mouse-fixup-help-message is very slow with a slow X connection

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From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: app-emacs-dev <at> janestreet.com
Subject: 29.2.50; mouse-fixup-help-message is very slow with a slow X
 connection
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:14:29 -0400

I unfortunately don't have a reliable recipe to reproduce this, but:

1. Have a slow X connection, e.g. through ssh -X
2. emacs -Q
3. Move the mouse over links with help messages mentioning mouse-2
4. Experience terrible lag as the mouse moves

I narrowed this down to mouse-fixup-help-message with some profiling,
and (defalias mouse-fixup-help-message #'identity) stops the lag.

I'm not sure why it's so slow.  Maybe posn-at-x-y is particularly slow?


In GNU Emacs 29.2.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo
 version 1.15.12, Xaw scroll bars) of 2024-09-23 built on
 igm-qws-u22796a
Repository revision: 340ed90ce4518de238610461047b6c8767ca0cdc
Repository branch: emacs-29
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12011000
System Description: Rocky Linux 8.10 (Green Obsidian)

Configured using:
 'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid --without-gpm --without-gconf
 --without-selinux --without-imagemagick --with-modules --with-gif=no
 --with-tree-sitter --with-native-compilation=aot
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/home/garnish/libtree-sitter/0.22.6-1/lib/pkgconfig/'

Configured features:
CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON
LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG
SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER X11
XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM LUCID ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Message #8 received at 73442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: app-emacs-dev <at> janestreet.com, 73442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73442: 29.2.50;
 mouse-fixup-help-message is very slow with a slow X connection
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:00:39 +0300

> Cc: app-emacs-dev <at> janestreet.com
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:14:29 -0400
> From:  Spencer Baugh via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> I unfortunately don't have a reliable recipe to reproduce this, but:
> 
> 1. Have a slow X connection, e.g. through ssh -X
> 2. emacs -Q
> 3. Move the mouse over links with help messages mentioning mouse-2
> 4. Experience terrible lag as the mouse moves
> 
> I narrowed this down to mouse-fixup-help-message with some profiling,
> and (defalias mouse-fixup-help-message #'identity) stops the lag.
> 
> I'm not sure why it's so slow.  Maybe posn-at-x-y is particularly slow?

Please profile with perf, so we know what part is slow.

Thanks.

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