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

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 07:33 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> 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? 

no.

>  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?
> 

yes

> > 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