Re: Why is Emacs so slow when used remotely?

[David Kastrup]

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:

> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>
>> A few things to try ...
>>
>> 1. turn off tooltip mode
>
> Yes. Anything graphic.
>
>
>> 2. Try running with -nw to turn off X and only have a terminal UI and
>> see what the performance is like. this will let you know if the problem
>> is basic emacs or the X protocol stuff
>
> This is not useful, if you only work with text.  The X protocol is not
> significantly worse than any other terminal protocol to send over text.

Font rendering/antialiasing/composition nowadays happens mostly at the
client side if I am not mistaken.  That makes the X protocol much worse
even with text.

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David Kastrup