[climacs-devel] Any tips on making the Climacs GUI more responsive?

[Sean Champ]

I am aware that this would be a matter, firstly, of the processor on the 
computer I am using. I consider that there is still grounds for that this may 
be addressed as an issue to attention, as in interest of Climacs development.

I am glad to have been able to have launched the Climacs GUI. It looks very 
nice.

I am wondering, however, if it will be possible to do aything in particular, 
as to ensure that the GUI might be more responsive.

In comparison of GUI responosiveness, XEmacs is fairly prompt, in response, 
even on this 366 MHz box. Comparatively, the Climacs GUI -- as it was 
activated, on the code and libraries, here[1] -- the GUI not quite as 
responsve as I would want that a text editor will be.

In what I mean by it not being responsive:
1) text typed into the scratch buffer does not appear quite as readily as I 
mght hope
2) on refresh/redraw, the GUI is not rendered as quickly as I would hope.

While I mean no affront on this, but to address the matter in attempte at 
accuracy: I am not certain if it may be a matter contingent as on CLIM and 
the CLIM implementation. (Considering: At the stuff about coordinate-system 
adjustment in CLIM, and while I know that is but one part to the CLIM 
standard, and I do not know how crucial that it is to the rendering of the 
Climacs GUI, but I wonder if it might, in however, serve as to occasion any 
lag of the visual interface.)

(I am certain that it is not the CLX-X interface. Though what code that I had 
made for the prototypes has suffered from some bit-rot, but in all prior 
sessions, Garnet applications have been farily responsive, here)

I am sure that I could re-compile CLIM and the companion source-code to 
Climacs, recompiling it as under a less intensive debug policy, but I am not 
aware about how much strength of debugging I would have lost, then. 

Regardless, I hope to have addressed my concern on this, without leaving it 
blindly aside. I realize, this might ocasion more involvement directly about 
CLIM. I hope to have addressed my concern about it, firstly, to whom would be 
more aware of the system than I may be.


Thank you

---
Sean


[1] I'm using a recent build of X.org from debian/sid, and the recent Common 
Lisp sources for the components to CLIM, running in SBCL 0.9.11