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From: josh@viewlog.UUCP (Josh Marantz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.windows.x
Subject: Emacs refresh speed under X on Sparcstation
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Date: 9 Apr 90 19:23:58 GMT
Organization: Viewlogic Systems Inc., Marlboro, MA
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I have Gnu Emacs 18.55 running on my Sparc under SunOS 4.0.3, using X11R4.
The refresh speed is excellent when paging forward and backward.  But when
doing complex operations, such as splitting windows, partial scrolls, and
big kills and copies, sometimes the display seems non-optimal.  It seems
like it would be faster on the Sparc to do a complete repaint rather than
do scroll-region (presumably through XCopyArea).  How do I tell the Emacs
redisplay algorithm that these scrolls are very costly?
-- 
Joshua Marantz
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
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