23.0.50; MacOS X 10.4: very slow visuals, multi-tty patch suspected

[Ted Zlatanov]

Started Emacs without any init functionality to confirm this
performance issue.

Visual operations (e.g. line down/up) are much, much slower than in
my last CVS build from 2 weeks ago.  There is a perceptible lag every
time I press up/down arrow for example.  I didn't see a way to compile
without multi-tty at the configure level to confirm the multi-tty
patch is the problem, but I suspect it.  It may be related that
(start-server) doesn't start the Emacs server.

Nonvisual operations, e.g. Gnus loading, are as fast as they were
before based on observation but no hard numbers.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.10.1, Carbon Version 1.6.0, 
multi-tty)
 of 2007-09-06 on tzz
Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.4.10
configured using `configure  '--enable-carbon-app' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' 
'--with-png' 'CC=gcc''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Summary

Minor modes in effect:
  recentf-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  cua-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  image-tag-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> <C-prior> <C-home> <C-home> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-2> <return> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <next> q c <down> 
<down> <down> c c <down> c c <down> c c <up> c l <down> 
<down> c <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> c <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
l <prior> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <return> 
SPC SPC SPC SPC i <down> <up> <end> <down> <down> <home> 
<end> <down> c <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> 
<down> <return> <down> <return> C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d 
C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d <next> q <down> <up> <up> 
<down> <return> c <return> c <down> <up> <return> c 
<return> <down> <end> <down> <down> <down> <return> 
i <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<up> <up> <up> <C-home> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <end> <return> <up> <return> <C-home> 
<down> <up> <down> <down> <return> <down> <return> 
<prior> <prior> <escape> x r e p o r t - e m a c s 
- b u g <return>

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