[Emacs-diffs] master f34f49f: Set inhibit-compacting-font-caches to t by default on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

branch: master
commit f34f49f35e5c000a6ee070678f43d2ca38b76cad
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

    Set inhibit-compacting-font-caches to t by default on MS-Windows
    
    * src/font.c (syms_of_font) [WINDOWSNT]: Set
    inhibit-compacting-font-caches to t by default.
    
    * etc/NEWS: Mention the change.
---
 etc/NEWS   | 5 +++++
 src/font.c | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index d5130e9..d951444 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2663,6 +2663,11 @@ is being used, except in Far Eastern locales.  When this 
variable is
 non-zero, Emacs at startup sets 'locale-coding-system' to the
 corresponding encoding, instead of using 'w32-ansi-code-page'.
 
+---
+** The default value of 'inhibit-compacting-font-caches' is t on MS-Windows.
+Experience shows that compacting font caches causes more trouble on
+MS-Windows than it helps.
+
 +++
 ** On NS the behaviour of drag and drop can now be modified by use of
 modifier keys in line with Apples guidelines.  This makes the drag and
diff --git a/src/font.c b/src/font.c
index ce85e0b..935dd64 100644
--- a/src/font.c
+++ b/src/font.c
@@ -5509,7 +5509,14 @@ and cannot switch to a smaller font for those 
characters, set
 this variable non-nil.
 Disabling compaction of font caches might enlarge the Emacs memory
 footprint in sessions that use lots of different fonts.  */);
+
+#ifdef WINDOWSNT
+  /* Compacting font caches causes slow redisplay on Windows with many
+     large fonts, so we disable it by default.  */
+  inhibit_compacting_font_caches = 1;
+#else
   inhibit_compacting_font_caches = 0;
+#endif
 
   DEFVAR_BOOL ("xft-ignore-color-fonts",
               Vxft_ignore_color_fonts,