any chances for some last minute vte changes, or atleast something to consider

Rudi Chiarito nutello at sweetness.com
Thu Oct 28 04:05:33 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:48:33PM -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> The speed issue was addresed in the patch attached to this bugzilla,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132770 , which I
> have found fantastic.  Without the mad skills of this excellent

I have found that a simple way to speed up vte rendering considerably is
the use of bitmap (=non-AA) fonts. This might be common knowledge or
not. I think I heard pango being blamed in the past for such a large gap
in performance.

That said, the other improvements mentioned in the bugzilla report are
definitely worth an updated package after the FC3 release.

-- 
Rudi




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