Re: x-create-frame is sluggish

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden (Lőrentey Károly) writes:
> Creating a new X frame takes about two seconds on my system, which is
> long enough a delay to be distracting.  My little profiling session
> determined that most of this time is spent in xic_create_fontset,
> calling XCreateFontSet.  Is it really necessary to create a new
> fontset for each new frame?  Can I do something to speed this up?

> (`xlsfonts | wc -l' reports that I have 6205 fonts on my system.)

I think we can cache XFontSet in struct x_display_info per
each base_fontname.  Then we can avoid calling of
XCreateFontSet when we create a new frame on the same
display with the same font.

---
Ken'ichi HANDA
address@hidden