Re: Bzr Emacs quite slow

[Alan Mackenzie]

Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu> wrote:
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> Hello,

> I've been using Emacs from Bazaar for about a week, and although it has
> the improvements I needed, it runs quite slowly, especially when paging
> through large buffers.  It looks like screen redrawing is slow: if I
> page down (C-v) the screen pages down and the screen redraws very slowly
> and in a quite jumpy fashion.  This is even after updating this morning
> and compiling with -O3.

> Is there something special that I need to do?

> I am running this instance from the source tree and using libraries that
> were installed for Emacs 23 on Fedora 13: could that cause the problem?

What major mode(s) have you been scrolling in?  What was your previous
version of Emacs, the one that scrolled quickly?  How large is large
(100kB, 1 Mb, 10 Mb, ....)?

> Thanks,

> Joel

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