I can confirm that same issue is present with GVim on a Windows XP machine. The issue occurred after the last update (Gnome Libraries I believe).
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > On 5/24/2012 8:32 AM, Berglund Magnus (SE) wrote: >> >> After an cygwin-upgrade this morning I'm experiencing performance problems >> with emacs-X11 (23.4.2). The performance problem seem to be graphics >> related. Window redraw is really slow, it can take up to a couple of seconds >> to redraw the emacs window. Scrolling the cursor up or down in emacs is also >> painfully slow. Some other X programs I've tried does not seem to be >> affected. xemacs works just fine. >> >> I've tried a fresh cygwin install on a clean (vmware) machine running >> Windows XP. Still the same problem. >> I also tried downgrading both emacs (23.3-3) and xorg-server(1.12.0-5) >> without luck. There was a bunch of other packages upgrade at the same time, >> I've included the part of the setup.log which installed the packages that >> introduced the performance problem. > > > I've noticed the same thing on my XP system but not on Windows 7. There > have been similar reports from two other users, but they didn't say what > version of Windows they were using: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00287.html > > I'm afraid I don't have a clue what could be causing this or why it > apparently only occurs on XP. > > Ken Brown > Cygwin's emacs maintainer > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple