Re: animate incredibly slow compared to 21.3

[Miles Bader]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:13:40 +0100, Jan D. <address@hidden> wrote:
> Myabe this is what Emacs should do, create a pixmap, do its drawing
> there, and then XCopyArea it to the window when done.  Emacs already
> does this for images.  It is not hard to implement, just replace the X
> window in all X calls with the pixmap.  The downside is that it uses up
> more memory in the server.

I'm not sure what the point would be though -- emacs doesn't have any
real problems with flicker etc (line-move aside, I'm assuming that's a
temporary aberation until a better scheme for doing visual
calculations is implemented).

-Miles
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