Re: Font backend: Observations on speed on Windows

[Jason Rumney]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Today I fired a fresh CVS Emacs and, with great surprise, noticed that
> the screen is painted with acceptable speed on my old 550 MHz
> machine. The second odd thing is that the font used was not the one I
> expected. Emacs was using
>
> -raster-MS Sans Serif-normal-normal-normal-sans-16-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
>
> so I changed the default font to
>
> -outline-Courier New-normal-normal-normal-mono-16-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
>
> and the slowness manifested again. It is my impression that it is not so
> bad as some weeks ago, though.
>   

Does the display become similarly fast when anti-aliasing is disabled, 
even with the Courier New font?
How is it with other truetype fonts, particularly sans serif ones, which 
are less likely to overspill the character cell boundaries when antialiased?