[g-a-devel] Re: Enable accessibility by default in development releases?

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 11/23/05, Padraig O'Briain <Padraig Obriain sun com> wrote:
> The problem seems to be that the function vte_terminal_process_incoming
> causes the "text-inserted" signal to be emitted for what seems like
> every character.
>
> The attached patch cauwes about 6% degradation when cat'ing a large file
> in gnome-terminal with accessibility enabled.

6% more degradation?  Or do you mean that it improves the performance
to the point where accessibility-enabled gnome-terminal only has 6%
degradation relative to the performance of gnome-terminal without
accessibility enabled?

> It would be useful to know whether it has any impact on the accessibility
> of gnome-terminal.
>
> Padraig

Actually, stuff like this makes me wonder if it's an additional reason
to turn accessibility on rather than a reason to keep it off.  It'll
help us find other little performance problems.  ;-)

Cheers,
Elijah