scrolling text is slow
@denteddelirium
Submitted by Monica Tension Link to original bug (#572210)
Description
Please describe the problem: http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/
says g-t was made able to scroll /usr/share/dict/words in under a second (under 2 with anti-aliased fonts). I find that with or without anti-aliased fonts, it takes more than 3 seconds, with or without a compositing window manager. This sounds like a regression.
My /usr/share/dict/words could be different, but http://martin.ankerl.com/2007/09/01/comprehensive-linux-terminal-performance-comparison/ has a reproducible benchmark which takes him .25s and takes me 2.14s.
This is important because terminal scrolling speed can set an upper limit on compiling speed.
Steps to reproduce:
- open gnome-terminal
- time cat /usr/share/dict/words
Actual results: g-t takes a long time to scroll the file
Expected results: g-t should take a short time to scroll the file
Does this happen every time? yes
Other information:
Resolution: RESOLVED FIXED