[gnome-love] Re: Canvas redraw priority

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 17:21, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 11:26:48AM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 23:00, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > > The 2.0 canvas is bletcherously slow.  So slow I am contemplating a
> > > switch to the simplified 'foocanvas' module.
> >
> >     Do you have a simple test case that I can use to profile / speed it up
> > ? do you have any idea where the bottlenecks / problems are ? what's the
> > story ?
>
> This is strictly a seat of the pants 'gnumeric scrolling is
> noticably more lagged' observation.  Given that we're still in the
> expansion phase of the 1.1.x cycle (aka woohoo! lets break stuff) I
> have not started tracing the origins.  The waters are now muddied in
> cvs by the use of pango in cells and some sub optimal gconf usage.
>
> However, it seems fairly likely that ditching the aa additions will
> be benefitial to gnumeric which did not use them.  I did some local
> tests of a conversion and it 'felt' faster.