Bug 56406 – Request for x11-libs/vte patch (significantly enhances gnome-terminal performance)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description kfm 2004-07-07 20:09:32 UTC]

Hi. I've discovered a patch in Gnome's bugzilla (see the URL associated with this bug) which patches vte, chiefly delivering a significant performance boost for gnome-terminal. As gnome-terminal is, frankly, dog slow on modest hardware this is a real boon, IMHO :) I've been using it for weeks and have encountered no issues. Any chance of inclusion?

[Comment 1 kfm 2004-07-07 20:11:23 UTC]

Created attachment 34973 [details]
x11-libs/vte-0.11.11-r1.ebuild (proposed)

A revision of the x11-libs/vte-0.11.11 ebuild which applies
${FILESDIR}/vte-0.11.11-speed.patch

[Comment 2 kfm 2004-07-07 20:12:44 UTC]

Created attachment 34974 [details, diff]
${FILESDIR}/vte-0.11.11-speed.patch

The patch in question (taken from Gnome's bugzilla).

[Comment 3 kfm 2004-07-07 20:34:20 UTC]

I just found some more information on the topic in general ... quite interesting.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83472

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2004-07-20 04:22:18 UTC]

looks good to me, spider does this work well for you in remote sessions ?

[Comment 5 Spider (RETIRED) 2004-07-29 13:20:03 UTC]

I haven't been able to test it yet due to RL taking me over and doing unpleasant things.

However, this patch looks good, and from what I see is a bit of a micro optimization in how it works, however it should probably go in atm.  I can't see anything bad from it at a glance, and over remote it wouldn't change much either.

[Comment 6 Spider (RETIRED) 2004-08-08 14:36:04 UTC]

commiting right now