Hello! This screen-shot shows the effect (searching enu):
A similar effect shows up in mini-buffer when I, for example, try to switch to another buffer:
These effects do not appear when I build a native 64-bit application and when I build a 32-bit application without wide ints (which could also be called "native"). The two different 32-bit applications (with or without wide ints) show another behaviour on my multi-core system when launched with -Q: one CPU core has constantly 100 % load when launched with -Q. In GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin10.8.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2012-10-07 on Sumac.local Bzr revision: 110380 address@hidden Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038 Configured using: `configure '--build=x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0' '--host=i386-apple-darwin10.8.0' '--target=i386-apple-darwin10.8.0' '--with-wide-int' '--without-pop' '--without-sound' '--without-gpm' '--without-dbus' '--without-selinux' '--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained' '--without-xpm' '--without-jpeg' '--without-tiff' '--without-gif' '--without-png' '--without-rsvg' '--x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib' '--x-includes=/usr/X11/include' '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar24:/Library/Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-g -H -pipe -fPIC -fno-common -Os -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -m32 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse4.2' 'LDFLAGS=-m32 -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs -Wl,-bind_at_load -Wl,-t' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'CC=clang' 'CXX=clang++' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/xft2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig' 'build_alias=x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0' 'host_alias=i386-apple-darwin10.8.0' 'target_alias=i386-apple-darwin10.8.0'' Important settings: value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Info Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t -- Greetings Pete The wise man said: "Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."
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